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Crossing the Organizational Species Barrier: How Venture Capital Practices Infiltrated the Information Technology Sector
2008
Academy of Management Journal
We examine the contagion processes whereby practices originating in one organizational population spread into and diffuse within a second. We theorize that "endemic" innovations native to one population spread to other populations through two distinct forms of contagion. We test this argument by observing information technology firms' adoption of corporate venture capital programs. Results suggest that geographic proximity triggers cross-population contagion, that within-population contagion
doi:10.5465/amj.2008.34789671
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