... and anthropology to rebuild the foundation of organizational ecology (OE), grounding macro processes of organizational legitimation, inertia and mortality in micro processes of appeal and engagement. COT also explored the micro-level process of organizational change, arguing that four features (i.e. asperity...

... diverse theoretical perspectives and different levels of analysis. In this paper, an integrative framework of organizational decline on the firm‐level is proposed that relies on a process perspective, combining insights from organizational ecology, path dependence and the resource‐based view. Findings...

... on the effect of partner exits on the survival chances of SMEs. Design/methodology/approach An organizational ecology perspective to analyze the case of partner exits on the survival chances of SMEs is applied. Using event history models, the effect of such ownership changes is studied by the analysis...