1Robert Drazin is an Associate Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in organization theory from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management, and Research in Organization Behavior. His research interests include organization design and the management of innovation.
2Ellen R. Auster is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology/Organizational studies from Cornell University. She has publications in Research in Organizational Behavior, Ethnic Communities in Business: Strategies for Economic Survival, Contemporary Sociology, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology and is co-author of Population Perspectives on Organizations with H. Aldrich, U. Staber, and C. Zimmer. Her research focuses on organizational factors affecting career mobility and strategic and ecological factors affecting organizational evolution.
3Order of authorship does not reflect contribution. Both authors contributed equally to this research. This project was funded in part through a General Motors Corporation Faculty Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.
