John H. Freeman Quotes

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“Hannan and Freeman examine the ecology of organizations by exploring the competition for resources and by trying to account for rates of entry and exit and for the diversity of organizational forms. They show that the destinies of organizations are determined more by impersonal forces than by the intervention of individuals by the intervention of individuals.”

John H. Freeman

Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman. Organizational ecology. Harvard University Press, 1993; Abstract.

“Entrepreneurs often are organizational products… The capital required, human resources, space, information, permits and licenses are all provided, perhaps grudgingly, by existing organizations.”

John H. Freeman

John H. Freeman, "Entrepreneurs as Organizational Products: Semiconductor Firms and Venture Capital Firms," Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, 1 (1986): 33-52

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