Professionalism, Variation, and Organizational Survival
通过殡葬业案例，研究专业化这一制度因素如何影响组织形态的变异，指出制度环境可能使变异非随机，从而改变选择过程，对组织生态学理论有贡献。
Organizational-ecology theorists have traditionally examined the effects of institutional variables in the same manner as task-environment variables-as affecting the selection process. This paper illustrates that institutions, in this case professionalism, may also affect variation of structural forms within a niche. Using a case study of the funeral industry, important effects of the institutional environment on variation are identified. The study contributes to the ecological perspective by showing that, in some cases, the selection game is fixed because variation is not random.