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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: This paper will first venture into the neglected sphere of thin, ephemeral, and global personal knowledge networks by differentiating between connectivity, sociality, and communality networks, and elucidates the supportive functions of these ties but also explores the tensions between personal interests, project goals, and the firm's aims that are induced by thesepersonal knowledge networks.
Abstract: Recent debates on learning have shifted the analytical focus from formal organizational arrangements to informal personal ties. Personal knowledge networks, though, mostly are perceived as homogenous, cohesive, and local personal ties. Moreover, a functionalist tone seems to prevail in accounts in which personal knowledge networks are seen to compensate the shortcomings of the formal organization. This paper sets outtoexpandthedominantconstrualofnetworks,whichislargelymoldedby the notion of embeddedness. Against the background of in-depth empirical analysis of the project ecologies of the Hamburg advertising and the Munich software business, the paper will first venture into the neglected sphere of thin, ephemeral, and global personal knowledge networks by differentiating between connectivity, sociality, and communality networks. Second, the paper not only elucidates the supportive functions of these ties but also explores the tensions between personal interests, project goals, and the firm’s aims that are induced by these personal knowledge networks.
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TL;DR: An embeddedness framing of governance and opportunism towards a cross-nationally accommodating theory of agency is proposed in this article, where the authors propose an embeddedness framework of governance.
Abstract: An embeddedness framing of governance and opportunism : towards a cross-nationally accommodating theory of agency
210 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that sharing is a discursive formation that is produced through neoliberal economic practices and contributes to their constitution and performance, connoting the embeddedness and inter-determination of the economic with the social.
210 citations
01 Jan 2002
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role played by relational embeddedness in the process of creating synergies of knowledge-related capabilities in strategic alliances (SAs) has been investigated empirically.
206 citations