Munificence and Carrying Capacity of the Environment and Organization Formation

Abstract

Two streams of research and theory development, resource dependence and population ecology, are combined to develop a model of the relationship between organization formation and environmental munificence and carrying capacity. An Interactive and curvilinear relationship is predicted. Munificence is reflected in social, economic, political, market, and Infrastructural resources. Carrying capacity involves density and prior births and deaths In an organization's population. Propositions and research recommendations are presented.