Editing Organizing and Governance in Online Communities (UW COM597 Winter 2025) (section)

=== Friday February 7: Organizational Ecology {{tentative}} ===

* Hannan, Michael T., and John Freeman. 1977. “The Population Ecology of Organizations.” ''American Journal of Sociology'' 82 (5): 929–64. https://doi.org/10.1086/226424. {avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1086/226424}}
* Young, Ruth C. 1988. “Is Population Ecology a Useful Paradigm for the Study of Organizations?” ''American Journal of Sociology'' 94 (1): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1086/228949. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1086/228949}}
* Carroll, Glenn R., and Anand Swaminathan. 2000. “Why the Microbrewery Movement? Organizational Dynamics of Resource Partitioning in the U.S. Brewing Industry.” ''American Journal of Sociology'' 106 (3): 715–62. https://doi.org/10.1086/318962. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1086/318962}}

* Wang, Xiaoqing, Brian S. Butler, and Yuqing Ren. 2013. “The Impact of Membership Overlap on Growth: An Ecological Competition View of Online Groups.” ''Organization Science'' 24 (2): 414–31. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0756. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0756}}
* Zhu, Haiyi, Jilin Chen, Tara Matthews, Aditya Pal, Hernan Badenes, and Robert E. Kraut. 2014. “Selecting an Effective Niche: An Ecological View of the Success of Online Communities.” In ''Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14)'', 301–10. New York, New York: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557348. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557348}} {{tentative}}
* Zhu, Haiyi, Robert E. Kraut, and Aniket Kittur. 2014. “The Impact of Membership Overlap on the Survival of Online Communities.” In ''Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems'', 281–90. CHI ’14. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557213. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557213}}
* TeBlunthuis, Nathan, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2022. “Identifying Competition and Mutualism between Online Groups.” In ''Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’22)'', 16:993–1004. Palo, Alto, California: AAAI Press. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19352. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19352}}


Optional:

* Bruderl, Josef, and Rudolf Schussler. 1990. “Organizational Mortality: The Liabilities of Newness and Adolescence.” ''Administrative Science Quarterly'' 35 (3): 530–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393316. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.2307/2393316}}