Does Barnett's own data show computer manufacturing exhibiting Red Queen competitive dynamics, or is that only the publisher's framing?

claim-barnett-applied-red-queen-to-organizational-competition currently rests on the Stanford GSB publisher page (Tier 3), which asserts that computer manufacturing is one of Barnett's two central case industries. That page is a marketing description, not evidence that the industry empirically displays Red Queen dynamics (age-independent competitive pressure / constant hazard of exit).

Why it matters. The capture's whole cross-domain bridge — chipmakers as a literal evolutionary arms race — leans on Barnett having shown Red Queen behavior in the computer industry, not merely having chosen it as an illustration. If the primary only offers a qualitative narrative, the bridge weakens from "demonstrated" to "analogized."

What would answer it.

• Read William P. Barnett, The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves (Princeton University Press, 2008) — specifically the computer-manufacturing / disk-drive chapters the capture flagged as unopened.
• Identify Barnett's actual competitive-intensity and survival measures: does he estimate an exit/failure hazard, and does competitive experience raise survival within-niche while failing to transfer across niches?
• Check whether the "constant extinction probability" analog (from claim-red-queen-hypothesis-names-running-to-stay-in-place) is demonstrated or only invoked.

Related: claim-executive-succession-restructuring-runs-through-actor-action, moc-schema-change-and-restructuring.

Progress log

• Answered 2026-07-27 by promotion of 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-23-does-barnetts-own-data-show-computer-manufacturing-exhibiting.md. The binary — Barnett's own data/text vs. only the publisher's framing — is settled in favour of his own text: claim-barnett-book-text-asserts-disk-drive-industry-drives-up-failure-rates (his book's own Chapter 1 asserts the hard-disk-drive industry drives up member firms' failure rates, the Red Queen mechanism) and claim-barnett-mckendrick-2004-tested-red-queen-on-disk-drive-makers (Barnett & McKendrick 2004 directly tested the model on disk-drive-maker data). The founding 1996 test used banks, not computers (claim-barnett-hansen-1996-founding-red-queen-test-used-illinois-banks). Residual: the specific hazard-model coefficients/sample/years were not recovered — spun off to the narrower question-verify-barnett-mckendrick-2004-disk-drive-hazard-estimates, not left as a false-closure on this one.