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Category Reinterpretation and Defection: Modernism and Tradition in Italian Winemaking by Negro, Giacomo, Hannan, Michael T., Rao, Hayagreeva

“…When two groups of market actors differ in how to interpret a common label, each can make claims over the label. One categorical interpretation and the group…”
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Measuring Memberships in Collectives in Light of Developments in Cognitive Science and Natural-Language Processing by Hannan, Michael

“…Which individuals and corporate actors belong in a collective, and who decides? Sociology has not had good analytical tools for addressing these questions…”
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Founding Conditions, Learning, and Organizational Life Chances: Age Dependence Revisited by Le Mens, Gaël, Hannan, Michael T., Pólos, László

“…Empirical evidence about the relation between organizational age and failure is mixed, and theoretical explanations are conflicting. We show that a simple…”
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Using Machine Learning to Uncover the Semantics of Concepts: How Well Do Typicality Measures Extracted from a BERT Text Classifier Match Human Judgments of Genre Typicality? by Le Mens, Gaël, Kovács, Balázs, Hannan, Michael, Pros, Guillem

“…Social scientists have long been interested in understanding the extent to which the typicalities of an object in concepts relate to its valuations by social…”
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Labor pains: Change in organizational models and employee turnover in young, high-tech firms by BARON, James N, HANNAN, Michael T, BURTON, M. Diane

“…Organizational theories, especially ecological perspectives, emphasize the disruptive effects of change; however, the mechanisms producing these effects are…”
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Partiality of Memberships in Categories and Audiences by Hannan, Michael T.

“…Recent theory and research have reconceptualized categories in markets and in other settings as part of the languages developed to characterize roles in a…”
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What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption by Goldberg, Amir, Hannan, Michael T., Kovács, Balázs

“…We propose a synthesis of two lines of sociological research on boundary spanning in cultural production and consumption. One, research on cultural…”
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An Ecology of Social Categories by Pontikes, Elizabeth, Hannan, Michael

“…This article proposes that meaningful social classification emerges from an ecological dynamic that operates in two planes: feature space and label space. It…”
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Dynamics of niche width and resource partitioning by DOBREV, Stanislav D, KIM, Tai-Young, HANNAN, Michael T

“…Dobrev, Kim, and Hannan examine the effects of crowding in a market center on rates of change in organizational niche width and on organizational mortality…”
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Category Signaling and Reputation by Negro, Giacomo, Hannan, Michael T., Fassiotto, Magali

“…We propose that category membership can operate as a collective market signal for quality when low-quality producers face higher costs of gaining membership…”
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Multiple Category Memberships in Markets: An Integrative Theory and Two Empirical Tests by Hsu, Greta, Koçak, Özgecan, Hannan, Michael T.

“…This article examines the effects of market specialization on economic and social outcomes. Integrating two perspectives, we explore why products that span…”
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Uncovering the semantics of concepts using GPT-4 by Le Mens, Gaël, Kovács, Balázs, Hannan, Michael T, Pros, Guillem

“…The ability of recent Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to generate human-like texts suggests that social scientists could use these LLMs…”
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Networks, Knowledge, and Niches: Competition in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1984-1991 by Podolny, Joel M., Stuart, Toby E., Hannan, Michael T.

“…The authors develop a conceptions of an organization-specific niche in a technological network. This niche is defined by two properties: crowding and status…”
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Oppositional Identities and Resource Partitioning: Distillery Ownership in Scotch Whisky, 1826–2009 by McKendrick, David G., Hannan, Michael T.

“…We build on recent theory and research on the role of categories in resource partitioning. We analyze Scotch whisky making between 1826 and 2009—a case that…”
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Identities, Genres, and Organizational Forms by Hsu, Greta, Hannan, Michael T

“…In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis within organizational ecology on identity as a fundamental basis for the conceptualization and…”
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Age-Related Structural Inertia: A Distance-Based Approach by Le Mens, Gaël, Hannan, Michael T., Pólos, László

“…This paper proposes a distance-based characterization of age-related structural inertia as an increasing constraint on the speed of change as organizations…”
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The Price for Market Embeddedness is Declining Adaptive Capabilities: Model, Measurement and Illustration by Liu, Min, Pólos, László, Hannan, Michael T.

“…This paper deals with a central challenge in organization and management research: to predict the evolution of an organization's adaptive capability. We…”
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Categorical contrast and audience appeal: niche width and critical success in winemaking by Negro, Giacomo, Hannan, Michael T., Rao, Hayagreeva

“…Previous studies show that producers that span category boundaries exhibit lower fit to category schemas, accumulate less expertise, and elicit negative…”
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Emergence of Market Orders: Audience Interaction and Vanguard Influence by Koçak, Özgecan, Hannan, Michael T., Hsu, Greta

“…Research in the sociology of markets finds that shared meanings facilitate valuation and exchange by providing frameworks for perceiving and evaluating…”
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Organizational Obsolescence, Drifting Tastes, and Age Dependence in Organizational Life Chances by Le Mens, Gaël, Hannan, Michael T., Pólos, László

“…Various patterns of age dependence in hazards of organizational failure have been documented: liabilities of newness, adolescence, and obsolescence. Prior…”
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