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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, a case study of 16 rural Australian craft breweries is presented, which examines the factors underlying their establishment, and investigates the contribution that these new firms make to local and regional development.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework is built around the processes of proximation and distanciation, which, it is argued, can be either competitively generative or competitively degenerative.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the stakeholder perspective on corporate social responsibility is in the process of being enlarged, and that corporations are increasingly adopting organizational features designed to promote proactivity over mere reactivity in their stakeholder relationships.
Abstract: We argue that the stakeholder perspective on corporate social responsibility is in the process of being enlarged. Due to the process of institutional isomorphism, corporations are increasingly adopting organizational features designed to promote proactivity over mere reactivity in their stakeholder relationships. We identify two sources of pressure promoting the emergence of the proactive corporation -- stakeholder activism and the recognition of the social embeddedness of the economy. The final section describes four organizational design dimensions being installed by the more proactive corporations today -- cooperation, participation, negotiation, and direct anticipation.
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TL;DR: The competitive embeddedness hypothesis as mentioned in this paper suggests that the likelihood of cooperation between two firms is positively related to the intensity of competition between these firms in the preceding period and the likely mechanisms leading to this are familiarity and knowledge-based trust, both of which are greater between competitors than between non-competitors or two randomly selected actors.
Abstract: How does a history of competition between two economic actors affect their willingness and ability to work together for mutual benefit? Existing theory and research offer mixed predictions and answers. The competitive embeddedness hypothesis suggested here postulates that the likelihood of cooperation between two firms is positively related to the intensity of competition between these firms in the preceding period. The likely mechanisms leading to this are familiarity and knowledge-based trust, both of which are greater between competitors than between non-competitors or two randomly selected actors. Analysis of investment syndicates in venture capital industry supports the competitive embeddedness hypothesis. The hypothesis holds independently of business culture and of the industry's development stage.
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