Abstract
This research was supported by NIMH Grant #2T232MH15149-03 to the Organizations Research Training Program at Stanford University (W. Richard Scott, Director) and by NSF Grant #SES-8109382 to Michael T. Hannan. We appreciate the comments of Mike Hannan and Jack Brittain on an earlier draft of this paper. Using nineteenth-century historical data on the Argentine press and the Irish press, we explore the plausibility of an environmental model of foundings in populations of organizations. We show that both internal population dynamics and events external to the press account for the quasi-cyclical patterns of newspaper foundings. Prior demises and prior foundings of newspapers both have curvilinear effects on current foundings; however, political turbulence at the national level accounts for the launching of most new press ventures. Institutional regime changes and economic cycles appear to have no effect on newspaper foundings. These findings suggest yet another mode of ecological influence on the change of organizational populations over time.*
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