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The author is indebted to Senior Editor Sarah Kaplan and to three anonymous reviewers for invaluable feedback on this paper. For comments on earlier drafts, thanks are due to Woody Powell, Steve Barley, Kathy Eisenhardt, Mark Granovetter, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Martin Kenney, Tom Lawrence, Mike Lounsbury, Alan Meyer, Marcus Perkmann, Mike Russo, and Marc Ventresca. This paper also benefitted from discussions with participants at the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), the Academy of Management annual conference, the American Sociological Association annual conference, the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research, and the Industry Studies Association annual conference, and in seminars at the Freie Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Economics, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizations Research (Scancor) at Stanford University, Saïd Business School (Oxford University), Paul Merage School of Business (University of California at Irvine), Beedie School of Business (Simon Frasier University), Fuqua School of Business (Duke University), Carroll School of Management (Boston College), and Imperial College London. The author thanks the Kaufman Foundation for financial support.
