Crossing the Organizational Species Barrier: How Venture Capital Practices Infiltrated the Information Technology Sector
研究了起源于一个组织群体的实践如何扩散到另一个群体，通过观察信息技术公司采用企业风险投资项目的案例，发现地理邻近性触发跨群体扩散，而群体内扩散机制不同，且跨群体联系紧密的公司较少关注同行业其他公司的行动和结果。
We examine the contagion processes whereby practices originating in one organizational population spread into and diffuse within a second. We theorize that “endemic” innovations native to one population spread to other populations through two distinct forms of contagion. We test this argument by observing information technology firms' adoption of corporate venture capital programs. Results suggest that geographic proximity triggers cross-population contagion, that within-population contagion arises from different causal mechanisms, and that firms maintaining close cross-population ties pay less attention to the actions taken and outcomes experienced by other firms within their own industry.