{"id":8283,"date":"2023-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.uc3m.es\/\/news\/341\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:10:55","slug":"341","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/business.uc3m.es\/es\/news\/341\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abBefore Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"\" open=\"\" sans\",=\"\" sans-serif;\"=\"\">Abstract<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"\" open=\"\" sans\",=\"\" sans-serif;\"=\"\">The literature on evolution of<br \/>\norganizational forms remains largely silent on where the first organizational<br \/>\ninstance of a new form comes from, treating it either as a given or as an<br \/>\noutcome of random variation. We challenge this agnostic assumption by putting<br \/>\nthe first organizational founding into a specific spatio-temporal context and<br \/>\nrevealing the role of provisional spaces, defined as small-scale, easily<br \/>\naccessible settings where market pioneers temporarily experiment with<br \/>\napplications of an innovation before dedicated organizations emerge. We<br \/>\ntheorize that provisional spaces disseminate necessary information about an<br \/>\ninnovation and enable potential entrepreneurs to envision a new template for<br \/>\norganizing. Therefore, geographic communities with a higher number of<br \/>\nprovisional spaces are more likely to host the first organization embodying a<br \/>\nnew form sooner than others. Using archival data on all movie-showing venues in<br \/>\nChicago communities, 1896-1927, we find empirical support to our theorizing.<br \/>\nCommunity variance in volume and types of provisional spaces for movie<br \/>\nprojectors, such as opera houses and penny arcades, led to community-level<br \/>\ndifferences in the emergence of distinct movie theater forms: nickelodeon,<br \/>\nmovie house, and movie palace. This study advances scholarship on<br \/>\norganizational form emergence by uncovering the role of provisional spaces in<br \/>\nshaping localized opportunity structures.<br \/>\n<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br \/>\n<!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: inherit;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8284,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-8283","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.uc3m.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.uc3m.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.uc3m.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.uc3m.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.uc3m.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}