Market niche

Ronald S. Burt; Ilan Talmud

doi:10.1016/0378-8733(93)90002-3

Market niche

Ronald S. Burt
, Ilan Talmud

Columbia University

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Abstract

Our purpose in this note is to make explicit how two lines of work in sociology - the population ecology of organizations and the structural hole theory behind network studies of markets - are based on the same unit of analysis. The unit is a set of structurally equivalent producers; termed a niche in population ecology and a market in structural hole theory. Making the market niche analogy explicit puts a bridge in place for what we believe and begin to explain here, should be productive exchange between the two lines of work.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	133-149
Number of pages	17
Journal	Social Networks
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(93)90002-3
State	Published - Jun 1993
Externally published	Yes

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