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The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: The network effect (1996)
| Venue: | American Sociological Review |
| Citations: | 744 - 8 self |
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@ARTICLE{Uzzi96thesources,
author = {Brian Uzzi},
title = {The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: The network effect},
journal = {American Sociological Review},
year = {1996},
pages = {674--698}
}
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Abstract
In this paper, I attempt to advance the concept of embeddedness beyond the level of a programmatic statement by developing a formulation that specifies how embeddedness and network structure affect economic action. On the basis of existing theory and original ethnographies of 23 apparel firms, I develop a systematic scheme that more fully demarcates the unique features, functions, and sources of embeddedness. From this scheme, I derive a set of refutable implications and test their plausibility, using another data set on the network ties of all better dress apparel firms in the New York apparel economy. Results reveal that embeddedness is an exchange system with unique opportunities relative to markets and that firms organized in networks have higher survival chances than do firms which maintain arm's-length market relationships. The positive effect of embeddedness reaches a threshold, however, after which point the positive effect reverses itself. Embeddedness 1
Keyphrases
economic performance network effect positive effect survival chance apparel firm economic action original ethnography dress apparel firm exchange system network tie data set systematic scheme network structure new york apparel economy unique feature result reveal refutable implication programmatic statement unique opportunity s-length market relationship
