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Michael T. Hannan, Glenn R. Carroll, Elizabeth A. Dundon, John Charles Torres, Organizational Evolution in a Multinational Context: Entries of Automobile Manufacturers in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, American Sociological Review, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Aug., 1995), pp. 509-528
Hannan et al. (1995) studied this question.