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Embeddedness
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The authors reviewed recent economic and sociological work on labor markets, focusing on studies whose comparison is particularly revealing of differences in strategies and underlying assumptions between the disciplines, emphasizing social structural constraints and avoiding the functionalist arguments now common in neoclassical work.
Abstract: This chapter reviews recent economic and sociological work on labor markets, concentrating on studies whose comparison is particularly revealing of differences in strategies and underlying assumptions between the disciplines. The sociological studies reviewed are especially those stressing the embeddedness (Granovetter, 1985) of labor market behavior in networks of social interaction and demographic constraints. Most of these studies share with microeconomics the stance of “methodological individualism” (see Blaug, 1980:49–52) that attempts to ground all explanations in the motives and behaviors of individuals, but they differ in emphasizing social structural constraints and in avoiding the functionalist arguments now common in neoclassical work.
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TL;DR: This article examined the interrelationship between the micro-foundations of institutionalization and everyday entrepreneurial action using material gathered from ethnography of owner-founders of micro and small enterprises in the design sub-sector of the creative industries.
Abstract: This study analyses the interrelationship between the micro-foundations of institutionalization and everyday entrepreneurial action using material gathered from ethnography of owner-founders of micro and small enterprises in the design sub-sector of the creative industries. We examine how cultural embeddedness enables and constrains entrepreneurial action using a cross-level model to highlight three levels of analysis where an institutional logics perspective might productively intersect with entrepreneurship theory development. The contribution of this study lies in the examination of how an institutional logics perspective can extend entrepreneurship theory at a micro and meso level while also suggesting a framework for integrating cultural context and the macro-level consequences of entrepreneurial actions.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how relationship embeddedness in MNC subsidiaries' corporate and external networks influences the contribution of innovation transfer to the recipient subsidiary's business performance and show that the positive link between a subsidiary's embeddedness and the contribution to business performance of receiving an innovation is negatively affected when the innovation is unique compared with other innovations on the market.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors acknowledge helpful comments from participants of the Rational Choice Social Research Workshop and specifically from our discussant, Simon Gächter, under grant 400-05-089 for the project " Commitments and Reciprocity".
Abstract: † Stimulating comments of and discussions with Jeroen Weesie and other members of our Utrecht group " Cooperation in Social and Economic Relations " are gratefully acknowledged. We also acknowledge helpful comments from participants of the Russell Sage Foundation " Rational Choice Social Research Workshop " and specifically from our discussant, Simon Gächter. The Management of Matches " and under grant 400-05-089 for the project " Commitments and Reciprocity. " The order of authorship is alphabetical. This chapter will be accompanied by an Internet based appendix with suggestions for further reading and other supplementary material at
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The authors explored the nature of Chinese business practices by looking at their social foundations and argued that the use of an inter-subjective logic based on the norms of social relationships provides an institutional foundation for economic transactions in Chinese business settings.
Abstract: This chapter explores the nature of Chinese business practices by looking at their social foundations We argue that the use of an inter-subjective logic based on the norms of social relationships provides an institutional foundation for economic transactions in Chinese business settings The logic of social relationships-or what we call guanxi logic-is embedded in daily practices of the Chinese business community Rather than making economic decisions less "economic", relational rules embedded in guanxi places interpersonal business transactions within a prescriptive framework, thereby increasing the calculability of economic outcomes Guanxi logic is, therefore, a socially meaningful way to enhance economic rationality Although relational rules play a role in Chinese economic practices similar to that of a legal framework in Western economic practices, the results are quite different Whereas Western legal norms depersonalise market activity, Chinese relational rules personalise transactions, making them part of the interpersonal social matrix of daily life
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