Organizing Knowledge in Social, Alliance, and Organizational Networks

2015 ◽  
pp. 477-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Van Wijk ◽  
Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch ◽  
Henk W. Volberda
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Social Alliance

Historical Network Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 431-442
Author(s):  
Emily Erikson ◽  
Eric Feltham
Keyword(s):  
Social Ties ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Party Polarization ◽  
Current State ◽  
Network Research ◽  
State Centralization ◽  
Development State

This chapter introduces the field of historical network research. Many historical outcomes of interest to social scientists are greatly affected by network processes. These include revolutions, segregation, increasing inequality, party polarization, market development, state centralization, and the rise and fall of institutions. The chapter considers the current state of historical network research across these and other outcomes by focusing on six different network phenomena: cross-cutting ties, informal social ties, associational and organizational networks, narrative networks, cohesion, and brokerage and centrality. Extant research has presented some contradictory findings about the relationoship of these findings to major social outomes, suggesting further specification is necessary. The goal of this chapter is to provide a synthesis that illuminates a pathway to maximize future contributions.

Temporal Brokering: A Measure of Brokerage as a Behavioral Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 109442812110029
Author(s):  
Eric Quintane ◽  
Martin Wood ◽  
John Dunn ◽  
Lucia Falzon
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Temporal Information ◽  
Behavioral Measure ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Message Boards ◽  
Behavioral Process ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
The Way

Extant research in organizational networks has provided critical insights into understanding the benefits of occupying a brokerage position. More recently, researchers have moved beyond the brokerage position to consider the brokering processes (arbitration and collaboration) brokers engage in and their implications for performance. However, brokering processes are typically measured using scales that reflect individuals’ orientation toward engaging in a behavior, rather than the behavior itself. In this article, we propose a measure that captures the behavioral process of brokering. The measure indicates the extent to which actors engage in arbitration versus collaboration based on sequences of time stamped relational events, such as emails, message boards, and recordings of meetings. We demonstrate the validity of our measure as well as its predictive ability. By leveraging the temporal information inherent in sequences of relational events, our behavioral measure of brokering creates opportunities for researchers to explore the dynamics of brokerage and their impact on individuals, and also paves the way for a systematic examination of the temporal dynamics of networks.

Bargaining, Networks, and Management of Municipal Development Subsidies

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunsang Ha ◽  
Richard C. Feiock
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Fiscal Impact

This article investigates why cities use fiscal analyses such as cost–benefit analysis and/or fiscal impact analysis to manage offers of economic development incentives to business. We advance an approach to understanding economic development subsidies and control mechanisms that integrate political bargaining and network theories. Municipal bargaining power, institutional incentives, and organizational networks are hypothesized to influence development subsidy decisions. The results confirm that local governments’ bargaining power and political institutions influence the degree to which cities use fiscal analyses. In addition, public/private organizational networks that bridge public and private sectors by linking quasigovernmental organizations and local governments increase information and credibility thus leading to greater use of fiscal analyses.

En un rincón de la frontera se teje insurgencia. Territorios encarnados ante la (re)patriarcalización

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Delmy Tania Cruz Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

In the face of the imminent threats of despoilment and increase of violence on the bodies-territories-lands of rural, indigenous, and farming women and their community frameworks, six years ago an exchange of dialogue and organizational networks began between different collectives from the border and women from the Tojolabal Meseta of Chiapas (Comitán, Trinitaria and Margaritas) with the goal of building a repertoire of actions to establish dams that could put a break on the (re)patriarchalization of the social space. The objective of the article is to start with the conceptualization of the meaning of embodied territory, an analytic category that elaborates on the organizational loom of diverse women. First, I will outline the context of the border to frame the (re)patrarchalization of the territories that are spread out in this corner of the southeast, which is characterized by the existence of regional economies that constitute unequal geographies of wealth and offset dynamics of violence. Subsequently, I analyze the itineraries, routes, and strategies that organized women of the border deploy to enunciate what they are witnessing as embodied territory.

scholarly journals Integrated product ontologies for inter-organizational networks

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Zdravkovic ◽  
Miroslav Trajanovic
Keyword(s):  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Design Intent ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Property Transfer ◽  
Semantic Alignment

Purpose of this paper is to propose approach and technical infrastructure for improvement of inter-organizational networks' response in product information acquisition and management. Different approaches (industrial categorization schemes, functional decomposition and semantic web) for management of product information are analyzed in context of inter-organizational networks. Process for semantic alignment of product information is defined, resulting with generalized, two-dimensional model, consisting of design and functional perspective. The process is expected to decrease human intervention in product data exchange in networked environments, as well as to create added value, through possible recognition of design intent, automated referencing to related manufacturing competences and reuse potential. Current prototype of system comprises of product ontologies and interfaces for topological model submission and refinement by using lexical term and predicate matching and property transfer. Impact of using formalized functional perspective is only theoretically justified and it still needs to be verified.

scholarly journals On Measuring the Diversity of Organizational Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Zeinab S. Jalali ◽  
Krishnaram Kenthapadi ◽  
Sucheta Soundarajan
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Networks

scholarly journals PRINCIPLES OF INTERACTION IN INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRINCIPAL – AGENT ISSUE

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1619-1626
Author(s):  
Emil Mitov ◽  
Albena Vutsova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Principal Agent ◽  
Evolutionary System ◽  
Neoclassical Theory ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Personal Behavior

In the development process of the economic theory, the focus is shifted from the market, being the only form of coordination of economic activity, to the personal behavior and its impact on economic processes. This reveals the importance of human habits and how they shape the socio-economic behavior. Social relations and interaction become more and more important and are seen as a factor influencing not only the daily decisions, but also the economic behavior of the personality. "Economics is seen by them as an open evolutionary system, experiencing a constant impact by the external environment through culture, political environment, nature, etc."In the development process of the economic theory, the focus is shifted from the market, being the only form of coordination of economic activity, to the personal behavior and its impact on economic processes. This reveals the importance of human habits and how they shape the socio-economic behavior. Social relations and interaction become more and more important and are seen as a factor influencing not only the daily decisions, but also the economic behavior of the personality. "Economics is seen by them as an open evolutionary system, experiencing a constant impact by the external environment through culture, political environment, nature, etc."Neoclassical theory assumes that fully rational, decision-making individuals, through their absolute awareness and using the exchange of goods on the market, strive for equilibrium and actually achieve it. New institutional economy rejects one of the most important postulates of neoclassical theory - the economy's quest for equilibrium, accepting it only as short-term (if at all possible) and uncharacteristic state. The public interest seeks to build more efficient structures/institutions, and by better defining property rights and maximizing the usefulness of each individual, to achieve greater public welfare. The most important concepts of the new institutional economy are the theory of transaction costs, the theory of property rights and the principal-agent problem theory.The problematic area of the present study is the conflicts, arising from the interaction and cooperation between different business partners, united in inter-organizational networks. The subject of this research is the theory and practice of these inter-organizational networks, reflected through the prism of "principal-agent".The expansion of the markets by counterparties and traded goods, as well as by geographic scope, leads to a de-personalization of the exchange, thus an increase in the uncertainty for the participants and consequently the cost of limiting it. The possibility of long-term reiteration of deals with the same contractor is negligible, while at the same time partners become increasingly distanced, virtual and abstract. This stimulates market participants to look for mechanisms to curb the negative effects of expanding markets - commercial contracts, bank guarantees, warranties, betting and trade codes. Their introduction is aimed at reducing the cost of obtaining information about the counterparty, the traded commodities, as well as providing guarantees to prevent opportunistic behavior after the conclusion of the agreement.

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