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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 explored differences in behaviour and performance between rural and urban small firms during the economic downturn and found that the "thinness" of the rural environme...
Abstract: This paper explores differences in behaviour and performance between rural and urban small firms during the economic downturn. The authors had anticipated that the ‘thinness’ of the rural environme...
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TL;DR: This article surveys the empirical literature on the question from experimental economics, social psychology, and organization science, concluding that much of socially relevant behaviour does not originate in isolated individuals but is embedded in institutional arrangements and that outsiders no longer focus on the judgement and decision making of individuals contributing to the course of action.
Abstract: Much of socially relevant behaviour does not originate in isolated individuals. It is embedded in institutional arrangements. Embeddedness can be so pronounced that outsiders no longer focus on the judgement and decision making of individuals contributing to the course of action. Instead, they ascribe the behaviour to the institution, which they refer to as a corporate actor. This social practice makes it meaningful to compare isolated individuals and corporate actors undertaking the same tasks. This paper surveys the empirical literature on the question from experimental economics, social psychology, and organization science.
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10 Jun 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of US law firms in the 21st century, focusing on the special nature of partnership and the importance of diversity in the law firm experience.
Abstract: Prologue 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Your Partnership: Surviving and Thriving in a Changing World: The Special Nature of Partnership 3. Your People: Valuing Diversity: Some Cautionary Tales from the American Experience 4. Your Expertise: Developing New Practices: Recipes for Success 5. Your Client Relationships and Reputation: Weighing the Worth of Social Ties: Embeddedness and the Price of Legal Services in the Large Law Firm Market 6. Your Income: Determining the Value of Legal Knowledge: Billing and Compensation Practices in Law Firms 7. Your Capital: Building Sustainable Value: A Capital Idea 8. Your Competitors: Mapping the Competitive Space of Large US Law Firms: A Strategic Group Perspective 9. Your Ethics: Redefining Professionalism? The Impact of Management Change 10. Your Challenge: Sustaining Partnership in the 21st Century: The Global Law Firm Experience
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present case study material of three very specific parts of the new media/digital content industries (film special effects, computer games and web design) and conclude that both technological reductive and agentic accounts have underplayed the continuing importance of the social and economic embeddedness of production, and of the situated coconstitution of technologies, people and places.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to ground debates about the ‘new economy’ or ‘e-society’ in the practice of individuals and companies producing ‘new media’. The uncontroversial starting point is to question the generalization in much theorizing, and the tendency to technological reductive accounts of social and economic change. The focus here is to point to the intellectual sources of much policy in this field. The authors present case study material of three very specific parts of the new media/digital content industries (film special effects, computer games and web design). The paper concludes that both technological reductive and agentic accounts have underplayed the continuing importance of the social and economic embeddedness of production, and of the situated co-constitution of technologies, people and places. The differences between industries associated with labour processes, labour markets, users and markets for goods are highlighted. These particularities begin to offer more robust accounts of location...
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TL;DR: In this paper, an expanded conceptualisation of copreneurship, locating it within the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship, is presented. But, although there are limitations to the current understanding, it clearly represents an important phenomenon, and the role of spousal support in entrepreneurship being identified as particularly significant.
Abstract: Purpose – The paper aims to develop an expanded conceptualisation of copreneurship, locating it within the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws upon entrepreneurship and family business literatures in order to identify the concept of copreneurship within both traditions.Findings – Copreneurship has been examined by researchers in both fields and, although there are limitations to the current understanding, it clearly represents an important phenomenon, and the role of spousal support in entrepreneurship being identified as particularly significant.Research limitations/implications – By locating copreneurship as a key link between the entrepreneurship and family business literatures, this paper offers a useful basis for framing subsequent work using insight from both fields.Practical implications – Copreneurship, and other forms of small family firms, represent a high proportion of new ventures and there are, therefore, considerable policy benefi...
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