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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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07 May 2011
TL;DR: It is shown that structural properties of individuals and dyads at Time 1 have a significant effect on the existence of edges at Time 2, and these findings are connected to the social theories that motivated the study.
Abstract: We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as strength of ties, embeddedness, and status, we explore how network structure alone influences tie breaks - the common phenomena of an individual ceasing to "follow" another in Twitter's directed social network. We examine these relationships using a dataset of 245,586 Twitter "follow" edges, and the persistence of these edges after nine months. We show that structural properties of individuals and dyads at Time 1 have a significant effect on the existence of edges at Time 2, and connect these findings to the social theories that motivated the study.
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TL;DR: The authors investigate how policy design, often the balance between sanctions and rewards, shapes individual choices and how that relates to intended and unintended outcomes. But their focus is on the way that individual action is shaped by social interaction and peer effects.
Abstract: How does policy influence human behavior? All theories of policy implementation have at their root assumptions about the nature of human action. Some (e.g., principal-agent theories) emphasize autonomous actors making a series of individual choices to maximize their interests. Studies of policy implementation in this vein (e.g., Lane 2013; Loeb and McEwan 2006; Sabatier and Mazmanian 1980) investigate how policy design—often the balance between sanctions and rewards—shapes individual choices and how that, in turn, relates to intended and unintended outcomes. Other theories (e.g., social networks) focus on the ways that individual action is shaped by social interaction and peer effects. Studies that take a network perspective on implementation (e.g., Coburn, Russell, et al. 2012; Frank et al. 2004) investigate how individuals’ embeddedness in systems of social relations influences what they learn about policy in the first place and how they respond. Other theories of implementation (e.g., sensemaking theory, institutional theory) focus on the way that individuals’ and groups’ interpretations of policy are shaped by cultural ideas available to them in the environment. This approach (e.g., Bridwell-Mitchell 2015; Burch 2007; Coburn 2004; Spillane et al. 2002) investigates how cultural ideas are embedded in social structure, influencing what individuals even think to do as they implement policies in the classroom,
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between a firm's perception of its own strategic network identity within its network of business alliance relationships and its market performance and examined how a firms relationship management practices serve as antecedents to its strategic network identities.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate Granovetter's "strength of weak ties" hypothesis in an informal African urban economy and show that both strength of ties and proportion of business ties have a significant positive impact on economic outcomes.
Abstract: This paper investigates Granovetter's “strength of weak ties” hypothesis in an informal African urban economy. It outlines an approach articulated around the reticular embeddedness conceptual framework associated with the notion of “ego-centred network.” The content of ties in an entrepreneur's network is described by three salient dimensions: strength, social role and exchanged resources. We use an original dataset collected in the informal economy of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) to evaluate how the content and strength of ties influence entrepreneurs' economic outcomes. The instrument of multiple name generators provides a vast amount of information that can be used to compute quantitative measures of the composition of networks. We show that both strength of ties and proportion of business ties have a significant positive impact on economic outcomes. It reveals the importance for small urban informal entrepreneurs to draw on both embedded social relations and more autonomous ones.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the value-additive ego-networks of the business owners in four Chinese construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and identified, quantified, analyzed, and visualized the relationship between the business owner and six main stakeholder groups.
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