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Social value change, embeddedness and social entrepreneurship

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2016
PurposeThis study aims to explore the shift in social and cultural values in the wake of ongoing change; specifically, the degree of embeddedness of these values among farm-based entrepreneurs. The authors examine how this value-change-embeddedness continuum can further the development of theories in the field of social entrepreneurship.Design ...
Jan Velvin, Kristian Bjørnstad, Erling Krogh   +2 more
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EMBEDDEDNESS AND SOCIAL PLURALISM

Philosophia Reformata, 2013
This article examines Karl Polanyi’s “double-movement thesis” and, in particular, his claim that modern economies are characterized by a dis-embedding of the economy from society. I examine two significant lines of criticism of this thesis: first, that the concept of “embeddedness” is incoherent in that it implies that economies both can and cannot ...
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Social Capital and Social Embeddedness

2020
The term social capital embodies a concept that emphasizes recent acknowledgement of how important social structure is to business life and how economic and business activity is embedded within the social structure. This rather theoretical chapter summarizes and exemplifies these concepts.
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Social Embeddedness in Electronic Negotiations

Group Decision and Negotiation, 2006
This study contributes to electronic negotiation research by analyzing the role of social embeddedness of actors in a controlled laboratory experiment. In particular, we analyze the effect of prior negotiator relationship in different conflict levels in web-based negotiations.
Eva-Maria Pesendorfer, Sabine T. Koeszegi   +1 more
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The Embeddedness of Teachers’ Social Networks

Sociology of Education, 2013
Teachers’ social networks can play an important role in teacher learning and organizational change. But what influences teachers’ networks? Why do some teachers have networks that are likely to support individual and organizational change, while others do not? This study is a first step in answering this question.
Cynthia E. Coburn, Willow S. Mata, Linda Choi   +2 more
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Selective Play: Social Embeddedness of Social Dilemmas

1996
Research on social dilemmas and related problems are currently witnessing new, encompassing developments in theory and methods. In this paper, we will focus on one specific aspect of those developments—i.e., development of the “selective play ”paradigm.
Toshio Yamagishi, Nahoko Hayashi
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The Social Embeddedness of Marketing

2019
In both premodern and modern capitalist societies, marketing emerged as a key driver behind consumption patterns and as a facilitator of new consumer goods and services. This chapter uses historical case studies to highlight how marketing and consumption practices co-developed over time and in response to socioeconomic and technological changes.
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Social Embeddedness and Incomplete Property Rights

2020
Born in Vienna and brought up in Budapest, the Austro-Hungarian scholar Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), in spite of his obscurity in the greater half of his life, released a book, The Great Transformation: the Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, in 1944.
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The Social Embeddedness of Strategy Implementation

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, 2013
The purpose of this case is to deepen understanding about strategy implementation. The study draws on a network survey conducted in four internationally operating companies and presents analysis on the role of social relations in strategy implementation.
Karintaus Katja, Lehtimäki Hanna
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Social Embeddedness and Rational Turnout

2019
Models that embed people in social groups provide solutions to the paradox of voting. This chapter summarizes several approaches that use group identities and loyalties to generate substantial turnout even within rational choice models of participation (whether voting or collective action more broadly).
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