The authors would like to thank Betül Altunsu, Valentina Assenova, Tuğçe Baykent Beyhan, Jerker Denrell, Michael T. Hannan, Marissa King, Giacomo Negro, Elizabeth Pontikes, Amanda Sharkey, and Olav Sorenson for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this manuscript, as well as audiences at the 18th Organizational Ecology Workshop, 2016 Academy of Management annual meeting, McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management, and UCLA Contentious Politics and Organizations Working Group. They thank Senior Editor Brayden King and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive guidance. Finally, they would like to thank Eitan Katznelson for his research support. Özgecan Koçak received research support from a TUBA-GEBIP (2014) award while working on this project.
