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Embeddedness
About: Embeddedness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4773 publications have been published within this topic receiving 229721 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors place the study of the multinational enterprise (MNE) at the core of political economy scholarship and locate the MNE in its outer institutional environments, where MNEs are embedded in networks of relations with a number of important external actors, not only governments.
Abstract: There is rising interest in placing the study of the multinational enterprise (MNE) at the core of political economy scholarship. This article attempts to locate the MNE in its outer institutional environments. MNEs are embedded in networks of relations with a number of important external actors, not only governments. These networks manifest marked differences between nations and regions, with differential implications for production and managerial arrangements within the firm, public policy choices and the constellation of MNE‐government relationships. In the distribution of wealth and power, MNEs are situated at the interface of domestic structures in national and regional political economies, and the process of internationalization within global political economic structures. A research agenda for the 1990s should, therefore, incorporate a political economy of the MNE in structures of global competition and cooperation that have institutional underpinnings. This study seeks to address elements...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate why organizations adopt informal rules when formal ones exist and how and why patterns of defiance vary across organizations and identify ambiguity of formal institutions as a major source of organizational defiance.
Abstract: We extend research on informal economic activity and investigate why organizations adopt informal rules when formal ones exist and how and why patterns of defiance vary across organizations. We build on data from an in-depth study of four organizations operating in the Nigerian movie industry. We identify ambiguity of formal institutions as a major source of organizational defiance. We also find that the organization’s domain of embeddedness mediates the relationship between institutional ambiguity and organizational defiance. According to our analysis, the rationale for organizing propelled by the dominant domain of embeddedness affects whether organizations consistently or selectively defy ambiguous formal rules. Our findings highlight the importance of the interplay between institutional and organizational dynamics in understanding informality within an economy. Copyright © 2014 Strategic Management Society.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between the degree of subsidiary's external and internal embeddedness and the contribution on subsidiary's business performance of a received innovation, focusing on dual embeddedness of the subsidiary that receives an innovation from the rest of the MNC's network.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the degree of subsidiary’s external and internal embeddedness and the contribution on subsidiary’s business performance of a received innovation. In particular it focusses on dual embeddedness of the subsidiary that receives an innovation from the rest of the MNC’s network. Design/methodology/approach – Using Amadeus databases were selected 93 CEE subsidiaries located in six countries. Data were collected through a standardized questionnaire and three hypothesis were tested through an OLS regression model. Findings – The results indicate that the two types of embeddedness positively affect the received innovation’s contribution on business performance. Moreover, the inclusion of the interaction term shows how a simultaneously high level of embeddedness in both external and internal business networks lead to a multiplicative and positive effect on subsidiary’s business performance. This means that external and internal embeddedn...
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27 Jun 2005
TL;DR: The authors argue that globalisation comprises a coherent causal mechanism or set of causal mechanisms, rather than a complex, chaotic, and over-determined outcome of a multiscalar, multitemporal, and multicentric series of processes operating in specific structural contexts.
Abstract: This chapter critically addresses globalisation in four ways: (a) contesting the
often unstated assumption that globalisation comprises a coherent causal
mechanism-or set of causal mechanisms-rather than a complex, chaotic, and
overdetermined outcome of a multiscalar, multitemporal, and multicentric series
of processes operating in specific structural contexts; (b) questioning the
intellectual and practical search for ‘the’ primary scalewhether global, triadic,
national, regional, or urban-around which the world economy is currently
organised as if this would somehow be directly analogous to the primacy of the
national scale in the thirty years of postwar growth in the circuits of Atlantic
Fordism; (c) relating the resulting ‘relativisation of scale’, i.e. the absence of a
dominant nodal point in managing interscalar relations, to some basic
contradictions and dilemmas of capitalism, the changing bases of accumulation,
the changing relation between the economic and political and the increased
competitive importance of the social embeddedness of economic activities; and
(d) noting how these problems are being addressed through economic and
political projects oriented to different scales-with little consensus as yet on how
these projects and scales might be reconciled.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that notions of pluralism, so often espoused by global health organisations, may conceal important forms of social inequality and cultural divides, and that sociologists should play a critical role in highlighting these issues.
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