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The key argument is that managers and owners in firms search for stable patterns of interaction with their largest competitors. Once stable patterns prove to be both legal and profitable, firms set up organizational fields that tend to produce and reproduce those patterns.

— Neil Fligstein

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The main problem actors face is uncertainty caused by difficulties in finding suppliers and customers and in controlling their own firm.

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