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First-year students are challenged cognitively and socially by the need to integrate into a new environment. This article investigates the role of peer students as a social resource for academic help-seeking to overcome knowledge-related difficulties ...
Christian Schlusche +2 more
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How can economic sociology help business relationship management? [PDF]
Purpose – By analyzing organizations as social actors and business relationships as social relationships, sociology can improve business relationship management. This paper aims to explore the issues involved.
Mike Rich +2 more
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A Novel Approach to the Operationalization of Corporate Local Embeddedness: Cultural Perspectives on Narratives as Indicators [PDF]
Corporate embeddedness, the extent to which companies anchor themselves in a local context through political, economic, academic, social, and environmental connections, remains a key area of research in social and regional sciences.
Zsuzsanna PÁLFFY
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This study aims to explore the gender differences in the relationships between leader-member exchange (LMX), job embeddedness, and turnover intention. Hypotheses formulation was conducted by integrating conservation of resources (COR) theory and social ...
Triyono Arief Wahyudi +4 more
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The article argues that the mixed embeddedness approach can benefit from a consideration of the discussions concerning migrant transnationalism. The original theorization of mixed embeddedness did not include a transnational perspective, although ...
Östen Wahlbeck
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Global change is threatening the production and livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The capacity of smallholders to deal with such changes is influenced by the increasingly complex trade networks that connect them to local and global markets ...
Blanca González-Mon +2 more
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Reading the story of law and embeddedness through a community lens: A Polanyi-meets-Cotterrell economic sociology of law? [PDF]
In this article I propose that the role of law in Karl Polanyi’s concept of the “always embedded economy”1 can be enriched by the application of the “lens of community”2developed by Roger Cotterrell.3I begin with Polanyi’s suggestion that ...
Perry-Kessaris, Amanda
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The role of institutional and family embeddedness in the failure of Sub-Saharan African migrant family businesses [PDF]
There is considerable interest among European politicians and policymakers in how to integrate migrants in the local and national economy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 owners of Sub-Saharan African migrant family businesses (SSAMBs)
Basu A +6 more
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Social embeddedness and online consumer behavior [PDF]
Dear Readers of Electronic Markets, Social embeddedness refers to the extent to which organizations are connected to other actors via linkages of a social network or the extent to which human action of consumers (including their economic behavior) takes place within a web of social attachments such as friendship and kinship (Uzzi and Gillespie 2002 ...
Hess, Thomas, Lang, Karl R., Xu, Xin
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How and When Socially Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Organizations Benefit From Adopting Social Alliance Management Routines to Manage Social Alliances? [PDF]
Social alliance is defined as the collaboration between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Building on the insights derived from the resource-based theory, we develop a conceptual framework to explain how socially entrepreneurial nonprofit ...
A Madhok +69 more
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