Two other important insights generated by the population-ecology approach are the
importance of resource limitations in shaping the growth, development, and decline of
organizations and the role of successful innovations in shaping new species of organization.
An awareness of the changing structure of critical resource niches and patterns of resource
dependencies can make important contributions to our understanding of the success and
power of different organizations. The way that new populations of organizations can emerge
through the dissemination of innovations or new practices, as has happened in the computer
and electronics sector, does much to explain the changing structure of industry.