Gatekeepers, Structural Embeddedness of Firm Names, and Customers’ Demand in Luxury Watchmaking

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 15349
Author(s):  
Kim Claes ◽  
Frederic Clement Godart
Keyword(s):  
Structural Embeddedness

scholarly journals Self-Governance in Generalized Exchange. A Laboratory Experiment on the Structural Embeddedness of Peer Punishment

Games ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Georg Kanitsar
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Norm Enforcement ◽  
Structural Setting ◽  
Structural Embeddedness ◽  
Generalized Exchange

Peer punishment is widely lauded as a decentralized solution to the problem of social cooperation. However, experimental evidence of its effectiveness primarily stems from public good structures. This paper explores peer punishment in another structural setting: a system of generalized exchange. In a laboratory experiment, a repeated four-player prisoner’s dilemma is arranged either in a public good structure or in a circular network of generalized exchange. The experimental results demonstrate that the merits of peer punishment do not extend to generalized exchange. In the public good, peer punishment was primarily altruistic, was sensitive to costs, and promoted cooperation. In generalized exchange, peer punishment was also altruistic and relatively frequent, but did not increase cooperation. While the dense punishment network underlying the public good facilitates norm enforcement, generalized exchange decreases control over norm violators and reduces the capacity of peer punishment. I conclude that generalized exchange systems require stronger forms of punishment to sustain social cooperation.

Ex Post Contract Market Structure: Implications for Performance Over Time

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 588-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia L. Carboni
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
State Level ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Contract Management ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Structural Embeddedness ◽  
Contract Performance ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
Over Time

Government increasingly relies on complex arrangements of providers to deliver public services. There is burgeoning public administration literature on contract management and performance. This literature emphasizes contract management strategies such as contract design and ex post monitoring and relationship building to promote contractor performance. The literature does not examine effects of structural variables on contract performance in ex post contract markets, though work on interorganizational networks has long established that structural factors influence individual performance. This study examines the influence of structural variables on publicly funded contract performance in networked structures of exchange using 5 years of state-level contract data. Network concepts are used to develop contracts as networked exchange structures and develop measures of structural embeddedness for individual programs. Findings include that the structural embeddedness of individual programs influences individual contract performance on quality and cost dimensions over time.

scholarly journals Resource Support or Emotional Trust: Effects of Perceived Organizational Support on Entrepreneurial Performance of Global Talents in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 03003
Author(s):  
Yongzhou Li ◽  
Shiqiu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Innovation Network ◽  
Entrepreneurial Performance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Network Embeddedness ◽  
Structural Embeddedness ◽  
Relational Embeddedness ◽  
Resource Support

Global talents are introduced for entrepreneurship and development in China, which is not only a significant way to gather heterogeneous human capital and realize industrial transformation and upgrading in a short period of time, but also a strategic measure to drive innovative development and build an innovative country relying on talents. The regional innovation network gathers innovation elements such as upstream and downstream enterprises, universities and scientific research institutes in the industrial chain, which provides great information and resource support for global talents to gather innovation and entrepreneurship in China. Taking global talents in China as the research object, this paper constructs the relationship model among perceived organizational support, innovation network embeddedness and entrepreneurship performance in innovation network and conducts empirical research. The survey data of Global Talents in China was analyzed by SPSS 24.0 and MPLUS 7.4. The results show that the two dimensions of perceived organizational support instrumentality and emotionality have significant positive impact on entrepreneurial performance and innovation network embeddedness; while innovation network embeddedness has significant positive effects on entrepreneurial performance, but the influence of structural embeddedness is more significant than that of relational embeddedness; relational embeddedness and structural embeddedness play a partial mediating role in the influence of instrumental support and emotional support on technological innovation performance, while structural embeddedness plays a complete mediating role in the influence of instrumental support and emotional support on growth potential performance. Based on the results of empirical research, the paper proposes to further optimize the allocation of network resources, strengthen emotional support, expand the scale of innovative network, and strive to create an international talent development environment that is similar to overseas.

scholarly journals Organizational governance of inter-firm resource combinations: The impact of structural embeddedness and vertical resource relatedness

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungho Kim ◽  
Kyuho Jin
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Vertical Dimension ◽  
Firm Boundaries ◽  
Micro Structure ◽  
Organizational Governance ◽  
Structural Embeddedness ◽  
Focal Firm ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Governance Choice

AbstractFirms not only combine resources within firm boundaries but tap into, acquire, or consolidate resources outside firm boundaries. Alliances and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are distinct vehicles for governing inter-firm resource combinations. Prior studies on the governance choice between them have relied on firm- or dyad-level attributes to explicate the choice firms make about the governance. However, any firm or dyad is a micro-structure embedded in networks that shape the flow of information and resources to the focal firm or dyad. In addition, although alliances and mergers and acquisitions involve either horizontal or vertical resource combinations, the vertical dimension of resource relatedness has been largely neglected in prior research. This study examines the impact of structural embeddedness and vertical resource relatedness on governance choice. We find that structural embeddedness is an important driver of governance choice and that a significant portion of resource combinations occurs along the vertical dimension of relatedness.

scholarly journals The Drivers of Collaborative Success Between Rural Economic Development Organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1113-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Ofem ◽  
Bindu Arya ◽  
Stephen P. Borgatti
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Power Imbalance ◽  
Structural Embeddedness ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Regional Collaboration ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Network Properties

The nonprofit literature has directed attention to exploring how features of the broader structure of exchanges within regional collaboration networks impact the dynamics and outcomes of a single partnership. This study examines how partners’ relative positions within a collaboration network impact their interdependence and collaborative success. Our analysis of 298 collaborations between 98 economic development organizations operating in an economically distressed rural region demonstrates that social network properties—structural embeddedness and relative centrality—have substantial effects on exchange partners’ collaborative success. We also investigate whether network effects are mediated by the two dimensions of interdependence, mutual dependence and power imbalance. Together, our theorizing and results speak to the driving factors of collaborative success in a context where collaboration is particularly vital.

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