@techreport{Beck2005Interplay,
abstract = {Our paper analyzes the interplay of organizational demography with the propensity to adopt
an innovative practice. In particular, we examine how the demographical composition of professional
German football teams influenced the adoption of the chain-defense-system (?Viererkette?)
as well as the success of implementing this system. In doing so we strongly believe
that the underlying relationship between organizational demography and the innovation diffusion
process is not only relevant for football teams: Other smaller organizations or profit
centers whose team structures seem comparable to those of football teams might be subject to
similar processes.
We hypothesize that a high level of team heterogeneity leads to a greater propensity to
change. We also hypothesize that homogeneous teams are more successful in executing a new
practice once they have overcome their skepticism. Our results support the hypotheses on
change, but do not provide final support for our hypothesis on performance.},
author = {Nikolaus Beck and Mark Meyer},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {L83; C41; O33; C25; O31; D23; 330; Organizational Behavior; Economics of Sports; Innovation and Invention; Diffusion Process; Duration Analysis; Performance Analysis; Organisatorischer Wandel; Innovationsdiffusion; Fussballsport; Sch\"{a}tzung; Deutschland; organizational demography; Viererkette},
language = {eng},
number = {2005,002E},
title = {The Interplay of Organizational Demography and Institutional Change},
type = {Discussion paper / Universit\"{a}t Erfurt, Staatswissenschaftliche Fakult\"{a}t},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23939},
year = {2005}
}
