Networks and Economic life

By Walter W. Powell, Lorel Smith-Dor. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Economics & Operations Research, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016, neutral): “This insight can be substantially generalized, and is one of the primary motivations for the generalized method of moments in econometrics [66, 121, 67].”
Economic Sociologies in Space (2005, background): “In substantive terms, the search for a rigorous and distinctive center leads to a “tendency to see network patterns as a distinctive organizing motif of economic life” (Powell and Smith-Doerr 1994, 369).”
Are emerging economies less efficient? Performance persistence and the impact of business group affiliation (2005, background): “Arguably, EE firms that are affiliated with business groups are embedded in a network mode of governance ( Powell and Smith-Doerr, 1994 ), while EE firms that are subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations are embedded in a more hierarchical mode of governance (Gupta and Govindarajan, 1991).”
The Impact of Regional Age Structure on Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “Second, social networks of both personal and informal business contacts provide information about opportunities and risks, thus reducing both transaction costs and uncertainty (Grabher 2006; Granovetter 1985; Hayek 1937; Klepper 2001; Nohria 1992; Powell and Smith-Doerr 1994).”
A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm - The Problem-Solving Perspective (2004, background): “Such oversocialization may reduce the infusion of new ideas and result in “parochialism and inertia” (Adler and Kwon 2002), or as Powell and Smith-Doerr (1994, p. 393) argue, the “ties that bind may become the ties that blind.” Individual choices of search trajectory may become increasingly determ”
Microfinance: Creating Opportunities for the Poor? (2010, background): “When such information exists informally, it is embedded in the local social networks to which traditional formal banking institutions do not have access (Portes, 1998; Smith-Doerr & Powell, 2005).”
Leveraging complexity for ecosystemic innovation (2018, background): “In a growing number of countries private firms and public bodies are meeting the challenge of restructuring, transforming themselves from vertically built entities into more flexible and horizontally oriented (Smith-Doerr and Powell, 2005; Sölvell, 2012).”
Patterns and dynamics of users' behavior and interaction: Network analysis of an online community (2009, background): “The conceptualization of many social systems as networks made of nodes (or vertices) joined together by ties (or edges) has long facilitated the study of the origins, evolution, and consequences of patterns of social interaction (Smith-Doerr & Powell, 2005; Wasserman & Faust, 1994).”
Network Learning: Exploring Learning by Interorganizational Networks (2002, background): “Network (Araujo & Easton, 1996; Powell & Smith-Doerr, 1994) is a popular subject among social scientists in management and business, in two forms.”
Conceptualizing Integrated Rural Tourism (2007, background): “This, in turn, can appeal to inward investors, increase local pride and counter negative perceptions (Powell and Smith-Doerr 1994; Bramwell and Rawling 1996).”
Informal Family Business in Africa (2009, background): “Theoretically, social networks bridge the middle ground between atomized market exchange and the structure of formal organizations (Smith-Doerr & Powell, 2005).”
The articulation of social capital in entrepreneurial networks: a glue or a lubricant? (2002, background): “Paradoxically, social capital is described as both the glue that binds to create a network and also the lubricant that eases and energizes network interaction (Powell and Smith-Doerr 1994).”