Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness

# Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness > OpenAlex Metadata Hub · https://openalex.org/W1999216122 ## Bibliographic - **DOI:** 10.2307/2393808 - **Year:** 1997 - **Citations:** 9623 - **Open Access:** No (closed) - **License:** — - **Source:** https://doi.org/10.2307/2393808 ## Authors - Brian Uzzi ## Abstract This chapter aims to develop one of perhaps multiple specifications of embeddedness, a concept that has been used to refer broadly to the contingent nature of economic action with respect to cognition, social structure, institutions, and culture. Research on embeddedness is an exciting area in sociology and economics because it advances understanding of how social structure affects economic life. The chapter addresses propositions about the operation and outcomes of interfirm networks that are guided implicitly by ceteris paribus assumptions. While economies of time due to embeddedness have obvious benefits for the individual firm, they also have important implications for allocative efficiency and the determination of prices. Under the conditions, social processes that increase integration combine with resource dependency problems to increase the vulnerability of networked organizations. The level of investment in an economy promotes positive changes in productivity, standards of living, mobility, and wealth generation. ## Keywords Embeddedness, Competition (biology), Economic geography, Business, Industrial organization, Sociology, Economic system, Economics, Social science ## Concepts - Embeddedness - Competition (biology) - Economic geography - Business - Industrial organization - Sociology - Economic system - Economics - Social science - Ecology - Biology --- *Metadata only — full text not imported unless Open Access license permits.*

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