Dear BPS community,
We are presently conducting a meta-analysis of the population ecology perspective in organization studies. This perspective encompasses a number of related theories, including density dependence-, resource partitioning-, and various 'liability' theories. Through our meta-analysis we hope to arrive at a quantitative synthesis of the accumulated empirical evidence for each of these varied theoretical arguments. To base our conclusions on the largest possible body of work, however, we need your help!
To date, we have been able to retrieve over 150 empirical research studies. Although we have tried to make our literature search as exhaustive as possible, we must inevitably have missed or overlooked several important studies. We therefore would like to ask you kindly to send us any empirical paper on population ecology-related theories you may have written in the past, using the e-mail addresses provided below. Unpublished working papers, book chapters, dissertations, and other difficult to retrieve sources are especially valuable to us.
If at all possible, please include full effect size information for each study you send us. Especially a correlation table listing all dependent (e.g., percentage of deaths per month; spell length since last founding; or organizational performance) and independent variables, as well as any interaction terms (e.g., size * density) and squared variables (e.g., density squared) you may have used in your analyses would be most helpful.
In case you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.
Many thanks for your cooperation!
Pursey Heugens (pheugens@rsm.nl) and Michel Lander (mlander@rsm.nl)
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The Netherlands