Titre du document / Document title

Why the microbrewery movement ? Organizational dynamics of resource partitioning in the U.S. brewing industry = Pourquoi le mouvement des microbrasseries ? Dynamiques organisationelles des ressources réparties dansl'industrie américaine de la bière

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

CARROLL Glenn R. ⁽¹⁾ ; SWAMINATHAN Anand ⁽²⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Stanford University, ETATS-UNIS
⁽²⁾ University of California, Davis, ETATS-UNIS

Résumé / Abstract

The number of small specialty brewers in the U.S. beer brewing industry has increased dramatically in recent decades, even as the market for beer became increasingly dominated by mass-production brewing companies. Using the resource-partitioning model of organizational ecology, this article shows that these two apparently contradictory trends are fundamentally interrelated. Hypotheses developed here refine the way scale competition among generalist organizations is modeled and improve the theoretical development of the sociological bases for the appeal of specialist organizations' products, especially those related to organizational identity. Evidence drawn from qualitative and quantitative research provides strong support for the theory. The article offers a brief discussion of the theoretical and substantive issues involved in application of the model to other industries and to other cultures

Revue / Journal Title

American journal of sociology   ISSN 0002-9602 

Source / Source

2000, vol. 106, n^o3, pp. 715-762 (4 p.1/4)

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, ETATS-UNIS  (1895) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

United States Of America ; Economy ; Strategy ; Quantitative Analysis ; Qualitative Analysis ; Rivalry ; Farm-Produce Industry ; Market ; Sociology of organizations ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Etats-Unis ; Economie ; Stratégie ; Analyse quantitative ; Analyse qualitative ; Rivalité ; Industrie agro-alimentaire ; Marché ; Sociologie des organisations ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 22384, 35400009808008.0050