Modes of Interorganizational Imitation: The Effects of Outcome Salience and Uncertainty

We thank Jim Baron, Alison Davis-Blake, Werner DeBondt, Mike Hannan, Matthew Kraatz, Dan Levinthal, Craig Olson, Jeff Pfeffer, Thekla Rura, Andreas Schwab, Sidney Winter, and seminar participants at the Wharton School, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford University for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Drawing on neoinstitutional and learning theories, we distinguish three distinct modes of selective interorganizational imitation:...