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- Title
Influences on the Rise of New Organizations: The Formation of Women's Medical Societies.
- Authors
Marrett, Cora Bagley
- Abstract
This study examined the organizational context in which medical societies composed of women physicians were formed in the last decade of the nineteenth century in America. The inquiry was centered on the relationship between the number of existing organizations and the formation of a particular category of association. Two explanations for a relationship between the number of organizations and the establishment of women's medical societies were investigated: (1) the opportunities existing organizations allow for individuals to acquire skills they can use to start other organizations; and (2) the importance of social networks built within existing organizations. The results showed more medical societies in the cities where women's medical societies emerged than in a matched set of cities. The results would seem to imply that it is the presence of organizations similar to the focal one that is related to the formation of a particular kind of organization, not the overall level of organizational activity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; MEDICAL societies; WOMEN physicians; MEMBERSHIP in associations, institutions, etc.; SOCIAL conditions in the United States, 1980-; BUSINESS networks; SOCIAL networks; DEMOGRAPHY -- Social aspects; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1980, Vol 25, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
0001-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2392451