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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 joint roles of new business opportunity availability and key formal and informal institutions in a country for explaining the incidence of micro-angel investment activity, and find that more protective legal systems and stronger embeddedness also play moderating roles.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied how institutions, local economic networks and collective social agents generate a propitious economic space that constitutes favorable embedding in Bergueda, Spain, and found that the key element in this industrial system is the loyalty that entrepreneurs and workers feel towards their industrial region.
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TL;DR: In this paper, double embeddedness is defined as the two-sided nature of communities, markets, and organizations, where social, political, and economic actions are embedded in social structure and culture.
Abstract: The authors coin the term double embeddedness to denote the two-sided nature of communities, markets, and organizations—where social, political, and economic actions are embedded in social structure and culture Structural embeddedness and cultural embeddedness and their interactions are variable, dynamic, and complex The authors develop a typology based on these two forms of embeddedness, illustrating four ideal-types with examples from the United States and Europe Two paths of stability and change in the United States are analyzed The first is the observed decline of social capital coupled with the observed stability of shared values The second is the hypothesized geographical polarization of values and networks, such as red versus blue states Applying Coleman’s macro–micro–macro model, it is shown that these two paths are the first and second cycles of a two-cycle model of social change Also analyzed are some of the social mechanisms (situational, action formation, and transformational) that underlie this two-cycle model
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TL;DR: This work argues that social care is embedded in place, by which it means the social relations that determine who provides what are closely connected with the physically bounded settings of meaning and interaction in which these activities and relations occur.
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TL;DR: The authors found that co-ethnic relationships were central to the operation of migrant firms and a minority of firms escaped from sectors traditionally dominated by migrant firms, including exclusion from the mainstream on ethnic lines and relations with workers characterized by informality.
Abstract: Studies of businesses established by migrants to the UK traditionally stressed co-ethnic relationships as economic resources. More recent work identifies a new ethnic economy characterized by migrants’ common experiences, with ethnicity playing less of a role. The present study complements this newer perspective through investigation of the experiences of forty-nine business owners and sixty of their workers in the West Midlands. Economic relationships were central to the operation of migrant firms, and a minority of firms escaped from sectors traditionally dominated by migrant firms. Yet substantial continuity was also evident, including exclusion from the mainstream on ethnic lines and relations with workers characterized by informality. Migrant business is evolving but it retains many of its features; this pattern can be explained by combining the mixed embeddedness theory of the enterprise with labour process analysis.
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