Market embeddedness and corporate instability: the ecology of inter-industrial networks

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The impact of inter-industrial dependency or control on the survival of organizations in Israel are investigated using social capital modes and structural exchange models. The differences between two approaches to social capital are compared and the structural determinants of industry's corporate instability are identified. The study aims to show the ways in which relations between environments modify relations within environments and how environments and real market players are structurally embedded.

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Legitimation, geographical scale, and organizational density: regional patterns of foundings of american automobile producers, 1885-1981

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Organizational theorists have increasingly become fascinated with issues about the boundaries of processes involving sets of many organizational populations. Concerns involving multiple boundaries for organizational population-related processes are investigated in the nation's automotive industry, specifically questions pertaining to geographic level of applicability for density-dependent processes of legitimation and competition.

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The organizational connection: social capital and the career expansion of directors of business groups in Israel

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The author examines which corporate directors of Israeli business groups are likely to get ahead. The study determines that the organizational position of directors plays a greater role in their success than their elite position or ties to social networks.

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