Includes index.

Emergence: how novelty, growth, and formation shape organizations and their ecosystems / Marc/David L. Seidel and Henrich R. Greve -- Different shades of green: environment uncertainty and the startegies of hybrid organizations / Juan Almandoz, Matthew Lee and Christopher Marquis -- A patchwork of identities: emergence of charter schools as a new organizational form / Harsh K. Jha and Christine M. Beckman -- Empty categories and industry emergence: the rise and fall of Japanese J/Biru / Jesper Edman and Christina L. Ahmadjian -- Network Opportunity Emergence and Identification / Marc David L. Seidel -- The social construction of market categories: how proximate social space creates strategic incentives to be early claimants of the fiscal sponsor label / Jessica Burshell and Will Mitchell -- A theory of crowds in time and space: explaining the cognitive foundations of a new market / Sorah Seong -- Assembling a field into place: SMart/city development in Japan / Roy A. Nyberg and Masaru Yarime -- Analogical learning and categorical identity during market emergence / Jesper B. Sorensen and Mi Feng -- Do connections always help? network brokerage's negative impact on the emergence of status / Bilian Ni Sullivan and Daniel Stewart -- Look at me: overt status/seeking behavior and competitive emergence among securities analysts / Anne H. Bowers, Henrich R. Greve and Hitoshi Mitsuhashi -- Emergence of a new institutional logic: shaping the institutionally complex field of community radio in India / Suhaib Riaz and Israr Qureshi -- Boundary/crossing job mobility, new product area entry, and the performance of entrepreneurial ventures / Gina Dokko and Geraldine A. Wu.

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