英文摘要 |
Taiwan is the second largest exporter of bicycles in the world. Taichung and Changhua has shaped the ecology environment of bicycle industry. Based on the perspectives of niche theory, organizational size, and resource partitioning for organizational ecology, this research question of this study is niche space wider, organization size bigger, closer to the central business, and more industry centralized, do they matter? To find answers to the above questions, this study adopted log-normal hazard function to analyze the determinants of organizational ecology, collected from 1970 to 2014 unbalanced longitudinal pooling data, bicycle related factories located at Taichung and Changhua area. Empirical results indicate that: (1) there was inverted U-shaped relationship between niche width and organizational mortality; (2) the higher niche overlap density was, the higher organizational mortality was; (3) there was a U-shaped relationship between organizational mortality and organizational size; (4) the more industry centralized was, the lower organizational mortality was. The above results show profound management implications. |