Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness Export

@article{uzzi97, abstract = {The purpose of this work is to develop a systematic understanding of embeddedness and organization networks. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at 23 entrepreneurial firms, I identify the components of embedded relationships and explicate the devices by which embeddedness shapes organizational and economic outcomes. The findings suggest that embeddedness is a logic of exchange that promotes economies of time, integrative agreements, Pareto improvements in allocative efficiency, and complex adaptation. These positive effects rise up to a threshold, however, after which embeddedhess can derail economic performance by making firms vulnerable to exogenous shocks or insulating them from information that exists beyond their network. A framework is proposed that explains how these properties vary with the quality of social ties, the structure of the organization network, and an organization's structural position in the network.\"}, author = {Uzzi, Brian}, citeulike-article-id = {1189141}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2393808}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2393808}, comment = {ERRATA On page 65 of "Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks" by Brian Uzzi (March 1997: 35-67), the correct 417/ASQ, June 1997 title and publisher of Mitchel Y. Abolafia's 1996 book is Mak- ing Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street (Har- vard University Press). In Figure 6, on page 93 of "Chain Affiliation and the Failure of Manhattan Hotels, 1898-1980" by Paul Ingram and Joel A. C. Baum (March 1997: 68-102), the vertical axis should be labeled "Multiplier of the Rate," and the horizontal axis should be labeled "Age in Years." 418/ASQ,}, doi = {10.2307/2393808}, journal = {Administrative Science Quarterly}, keywords = {networks}, number = {1}, pages = {35--67}, posted-at = {2009-02-17 09:48:04}, priority = {2}, title = {Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2393808}, volume = {42}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - uzzi97 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1189141 N2 - The purpose of this work is to develop a systematic understanding of embeddedness and organization networks. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at 23 entrepreneurial firms, I identify the components of embedded relationships and explicate the devices by which embeddedness shapes organizational and economic outcomes. The findings suggest that embeddedness is a logic of exchange that promotes economies of time, integrative agreements, Pareto improvements in allocative efficiency, and complex adaptation. These positive effects rise up to a threshold, however, after which embeddedhess can derail economic performance by making firms vulnerable to exogenous shocks or insulating them from information that exists beyond their network. A framework is proposed that explains how these properties vary with the quality of social ties, the structure of the organization network, and an organization's structural position in the network." IS - 1 JF - Administrative Science Quarterly EP - 67 TI - Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness VL - 42 SP - 35 KW - networks N1 - ERRATA On page 65 of "Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks" by Brian Uzzi (March 1997: 35-67), the correct 417/ASQ, June 1997 title and publisher of Mitchel Y. Abolafia's 1996 book is Mak- ing Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street (Har- vard University Press). In Figure 6, on page 93 of "Chain Affiliation and the Failure of Manhattan Hotels, 1898-1980" by Paul Ingram and Joel A. C. Baum (March 1997: 68-102), the vertical axis should be labeled "Multiplier of the Rate," and the horizontal axis should be labeled "Age in Years." 418/ASQ, AU - Uzzi, Brian PY - 1997/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2393808 ER -