Networks as the Pipes and Prisms of the Market1

By Joel Podolny. American Journal of Sociology, 2001

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1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “From this perspective, networks can be seen as both pipes through which information flows or prisms through which information is selectively amplified and transmitted (Podolny, 2001; Soh, Mahmood, & Mitchell, 2004).”
Network embeddedness and new-venture internationalization: Analyzing international linkages in the German biotech industry (2008, neutral): “Research has shown that firms with a high centrality within their network have greater access to and control over resources such as knowledge (Podolny 1994, 2001).”
How much prestige is enough? Assessing the value of multiple types of high-status affiliates for young firms (2010, methodology): “However, we will conduct distinct analyses to examine whether prestigious underwriters represent the “conduit” through which all other forms of prestige create value (Podolny, 2001).”
Partner Selection Decisions in Interfirm Collaborations: The Paradox of Relational Embeddedness (2010, background): “In particular, it highlights how firms prefer to work with partners with whom they have an embedded relationship to reduce risk and uncertainty associated with interorganizational exchange (Chung et al., 2000; Gulati and Gargiulo, 1999; Podolny, 2001).”
Domestic alliance network to attract foreign partners: Evidence from international joint ventures in China (2014, background): “A firm’s network positions have a profound impact on its partnering behavior (Benjamin & Podolny, 1999; Podolny, 1993, 2001).”
How Do Social Defenses Work? A Resource-Dependence Lens on Technology Ventures, Venture Capital Investors, and Corporate Relationships (2014, neutral): “Central third parties are also likely to possess better platforms from which to broadcast allegations and calls for disciplining, both because their allegations are apt to be perceived as credible and noteworthy (Benjamin & Podolny, 1999), and because the short network paths between themselves and o”
An Organizational Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: Costs, Contingencies, and Complementarities (2008, neutral): “At the maturity stage, the balance between entrepreneurial and accountability roles shifts as uncertainty about technology and markets diminishes and demand for financial resources to grow the business increases (for a discussion of these changes in uncertainty, see Podolny 2001 ).”
Universities, knowledge networks and regional policy (2008, background): “…of matching knowledge demand and supply, networks play an important role in controlling access, acting as the ‘pipes and prisms of the market’ (Podolny, 2001; Garmaise and Moskowitz, 2003), and integral to securing resources and obtaining legitimacy, (Lee, et al., 2001; Elfring and Hulsink,…”
Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960–19951 (2012, background): “The key conceptual distinction is that in the copresence network, ties represent the existence of relationships between SMOs, which serve as possible channels of diffusion (Podolny 2001), while ties in the diffusion network signal actual instances of tactical diffusion between collaborating SMOs.”
When managers become leaders: The role of manager network centralities, social power, and followers' perception of leadership (2017, background): “Second, there is a debate in the network literature about whether social ties act as conduits of information or whether they are more like prisms that distort information that flows through the ties (Podolny, 2001).”