Moving from an Exception to a Rule: Analyzing Mechanisms in Emergence-Based Institutionalization

The authors contributed equally on this manuscript. The authors are grateful to Janet Bercovitz, Michael Cohen, Jerry Davis, Steve Epstein, Brent Goldfarb, Louis Gomez, Royston Greenwood, Steve Kahl, Michael Lounsbury, Jason Owen-Smith, John Padgett, Woody Powell, Pratim Sengupta, Klaus Weber, and anonymous reviewers for extensive comments. They also thank Michelle Wilkerson and Rick Orlina for their assistance in the implementation and testing of the agent-based model, as well as for conversations that substantially improved several aspects of this paper. Support for this project came from the Northwestern University Research Grants Committee, the National Science Foundation [SES 0849036], and the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling.