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Capturing Social Embeddedness: A Constructivist Approach [PDF]
A constructivist approach is applied to characterizing social embeddedness. Social embeddedness is intended as a strong type of social situatedness. It is defined as the extent to which modeling the behavior of an agent requires the inclusion of other agents as individuals rather than as an undif ferentiated whole.
Edmonds, Bruce
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Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media [PDF]
Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of work around social media within CSCW. A range of perspectives have been applied to the use of social media, which we characterise as aggregate, actor-focussed or a combination. We outline the opportunities for a perspective informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA)—an orientation ...
Reeves, Stuart, Brown, Barry
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Social Embeddedness and Agent Development [PDF]
Two different reasons for using agents are distinguished: the `engineering' perspective and the `social simulation' perspective. It is argued that this entails some differences in approach. In particular the former will want to prevent unpredictable emergent features of their agent populations whilst the later will want to use simulation to study ...
Edmonds, Bruce
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The innovation activities of new generation of employees have the characteristics of double network embeddedness, and the degree of psychological contract fulfilment is an important factor that affects their innovation performance.
Jianhua Wang, Junwei Ma, Yongzhou Li
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Agricultural systems are deeply enmeshed in complex social processes and institutions, something Polanyi called embeddedness. Designing policy for sustainable agricultural activity requires understanding and measuring such embeddedness.
Joe Ament +6 more
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This paper focuses on understanding and explaining TVC embeddedness with the theory of Regional Innovation Systems, Social Fields, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis, which allows us to show the sufficient and necessary conditions for TVC embeddedness ...
Victor Cepoi, Alenka Pandiloska Jurak
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The social network in the organizational learning process is a critical knowledge source to realize superior performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between relational memory, relational embeddedness, and absorptive capacity,
Liwen Zhou +2 more
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Based on social network theory and dynamic capability theory, a theoretical model is constructed that specifies the process through which relational embeddedness affects enterprise value.
Hui Zhang
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Social influence in networks of practice: An analysis of organizational communication content [PDF]
Networks of Practice (NoPs) facilitate knowledge sharing among geographically dispersed organization members. This research tests whether social influence in NoPs is reinforced by actors' embeddedness in practice (knowledge about informal content ...
Dutch R. A. +11 more
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The structural transformation of embeddedness [PDF]
The concept of embeddedness plays a central role in the segment of economic sociology and social theory which is inspired by the works of Karl Polanyi. But to the extent that embeddedness is understood in a substantialist manner, implying the existence ...
Kjaer, Poul F.
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