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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 paper, the authors examine the role of embeddedness and social capital in the process of alliance group formation in strategic technology alliance networks and study the social mechanisms that enable and enforce group formation.
Abstract: We examine the role of embeddedness and social capital in the process of alliance group formation in strategic technology alliance networks. In particular, we study the social mechanisms that enable and enforce alliance group formation. We argue that the enabling effect of embeddedness during the first stages of the group formation process may turn into paralyzing effects as the group formation process progresses. Through the formation of subsequent ties, firms in social systems tend to rely heavily on their direct and indirect contacts in forming new partnerships. This so-called local search enables firms to create trustworthy and preferential relations. Over time, those relations tend to develop into strong ties, as firms rely on the same partners by replicating their existing ties. This enabling effect of embeddedness at the group level can, however, turn into a paralyzing effect as actors become locked-in, because they rely on partners only in their closed social system. Searching for, or switching to...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the operational rules in use and the presence of institutional design principles in long-enduring and dynamic customary fisheries management institutions in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Mexico.
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TL;DR: It is found that some knowledge sharing mechanisms are more suited for one stage of knowledge sharing than another, as determined by their "reach" and "richness", and a framework linking knowledge sharing mechanism with knowledge transferred is constructed.
Abstract: This paper attempts to answer the question of what and how knowledge sharing mechanisms should be used between geographically dispersed plants in multinational companies. Case studies in 11 multinational companies reveal that many mechanisms are used for inter-plant knowledge sharing, which are grouped into eight categories: transfer of people, forums (internal conferences/meetings), boundary spanners, periodicals, audits, benchmarking, best-practice guidelines and international teams. It is found that some knowledge sharing mechanisms are more suited for one stage of knowledge sharing than another, as determined by their "reach" and "richness". Specifically, mechanisms with high "reach" are more suitable for creating awareness among potential receivers and mechanisms with high "richness" are often more effective in transferring the knowledge. In addition, the choice of mechanism is also dependent on the degree of tacitness and embeddedness knowledge transferred. Based on these insights, a framework linking knowledge sharing mechanisms with knowledge transferred is constructed.
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TL;DR: The authors used central banking to make two arguments in relation to this debate: domestic actors may support EU-style institutional convergence in the same issue-area for different reasons; while external incentives may primarily motivate one group, another may fully accept and internalize the underlying EU norms.
Abstract: Post-communist Europe's increasing convergence with the European Union has generated contentious debate over the underlying impetus for this change. Did the material incentives and implicit coercion inherent in the EU accession process prod East Central European leaders onwards in their reform efforts, or did they adopt new institutions because of the deeper effects of persuasion and socialization? This article uses central banking to make two arguments in relation to this debate. First, differently situated domestic actors may support EU-style institutional convergence in the same issue-area for different reasons; while external incentives may primarily motivate one group, another may fully accept and internalize the underlying EU norms. Such two-track diffusion is more likely to occur when an epistemic community drives the domestic socialization process, because under these conditions socialization can advance within a small group or single institution without requiring active encouragement fro...
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TL;DR: This paper explored potential common themes in economic sociology and economics of conventions, and argued that a fruitful dialogue is indeed possible between economics of convention and economic sociology, and should be encouraged to explore the consequences of a plurality of forms of justification.
Abstract: This article is part of a larger exploration of the French economics of convention tradition. The aim of the article is to explore potential common themes in economic sociology and economics of conventions. The article explores two issues raised by economics of conventions that may be of particular importance to economic sociology. First, the explicit exploration of the consequences of a plurality of forms of justification, as elaborated in economie de la grandeur. This perspective was recently taken up in economic sociology by David Stark's introduction of the notion ‘sociology of worth’. The second issue, recently raised by Andre Orlean, is the attempt to denaturalize economic theory and economic action to demonstrate the social constructed nature of economic action. It is argued that these two issues demonstrate that a fruitful dialogue is indeed possible between economic sociology and economics of convention and should be encouraged.
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