Materializing the Societal Effect: Organizational Forms and Changing Patterns of Dominance in the Paper Industry
研究了造纸行业中竞争条件、主导企业与组织形式的共同演化，发现国家起源通过塑造独特组织形式影响企业，且成熟行业中主导条件持续变化。
This paper reports an empirical study on the co-evolution of competitive conditions dominating firms and organizational forms in the paper industry 1 . It has two main theoretical implications. First, with respect to research on national business systems and the societal effect, we suggest that the country of origin imprints firms especially by allowing them to develop distinctive organizational forms. Second, we show that the competitive conditions, dominant forms and dominant firms remain in constant flux even in mature industries. There is, therefore, a need for co-evolutionary research to continue to combine long-term perspectives and intensive research designs in the study of specific industries.