‘Spatial’ relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embedded ness

By Martin Hess. 2004

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Administration, Urban Studies

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The remit of financial geography—before and after the crisis (2009, background): “A third important trait of the papers in this issue is their attention to agency and particularly the social, network and territorial embeddedness of agents (Hess 2004).”
Whither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography? Past, Present, and Future (2006, background): “How the process of standard setting is played out between different actors, however, does not follow universal rules of transaction cost economies, but depends to a large extent on the societal embeddedness of the actors involved, that is, their cultural background and historical development in part”
The Strategic Localization of Transnational Retailers: The Case of Samsung-Tesco in South Korea (2006, positive): “Following Hess (2004), we identify three specific yet interrelated forms of embeddedness within the GPN framework.”
Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC) (2005, background): “The work of Hess (2004) has brought much needed clarity to the debate, identifying three specific, yet interrelated, forms of embeddedness.”
Relational Economic Geography: A Partial Understanding or a New Paradigm? (2008, background): “Although Hess (2004) stated that we should conceive of global networks as rhizomes without centers and rigid structures of control, such a decentered view underestimates the centralized power and decision making of leading firms (Phelps and Waley 2004).”
Mapping and measuring the ecological embeddedness of food supply chains (2006, background): “, 2001), but might also be the reason for the “fuzziness” of the concept (see Markusen, 1999; Hess, 2004).”
Analysing global economic organization: embedded networks and global chains compared (2008, background): “This micro-sociological conception of how social structure shapes economic outcomes produces what Hess (2004) calls an over-territorialized conception of embeddedness that neglects the multi-scalar dynamics of the global economy and the international dimension of contemporary economic…”
Making Connections: Global Production Networks, Standards, and Embeddedness in the Mobile-Telecommunications Industry (2006, background): “Three types of embeddedness are relevant for the development of GPNs (see Hess, 2004 for an extensive discussion): (1) the societal embeddedness of firms, that is, how their cultural background and enmeshment with institutions, influence and shape the action of individuals and collective actors…”
Transnational Corporations and ‘Obligated Embeddedness’: Foreign Direct Investment in China's Automobile Industry (2006, background): “We are not concerned in this paper with the broader sociocultural processes of embeddedness, which have become the focus of a huge literature [for a recent discussion of this broader èmbeddedness' literature, see Hess (2004)].”
For Polanyian Economic Geographies (2013, background): “…with these latter fi elds over the past two decades, Polanyi has made fl eeting (but often suggestive) appearances in this subdiscipline too, mostly in the context of discussions around embeddedness and institutionalism (cf Gertler, 2010; Grabher, 2006; Hess, 2004; Peck, 2005; Rossi, 2013).”
Rethinking relational economic geography (2005, neutral): “2001; Hess 2004).”
Stretching Global Production Networks: The International Second-hand Clothing Trade (2013, background): “…sector have been identified and this conclusion will offer further analysis of the different types of embeddeness; societal, network and territorial, which are required for the development of second-hand clothing GPNs and how the nodes articulate with each other (Hess 2004; Hess and Coe, 2006).”