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Title: Reconsidering local competition: Organizational relocation and geographic concentration in the US firearms industry, 1790-1914

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The negative effects of location in dense areas on the survival of organizations have been almost entirely attributed to the local nature of competition. To examine the salience of this theory, I choose an industrial setting in which organizations located in concentrated areas face higher mortality—the US firearms industry—and set up a test for the theory based on the impact of geographic concentration on an alternative indicator: organizational relocation. Results indicate that organizations are more likely to relocate from dense areas to other dense areas and thus local competition is unlikely to be the main mechanism driving relocation. I present conjectures that provide alternative explanations for the observed effect of geographic concentration on both relocation and exit rates.

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Authors: Kasbekar, Chirag

Publisher: Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Other

Countries: United States