2010/10/23 by Hans Berends, Elco van Burg, Erik M. van Raaij · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · Psychology · #Business Strategy and Innovation #Innovation and Knowledge Management #Complex Systems and Decision Making #Embeddedness #Dialectic #Perspective (graphical) #Interpersonal communication #Control reconfiguration #Consolidation (business) #Orchestration #Path dependence #Network dynamics #Agency (philosophy) #Knowledge management #Computer science #Business #Economic geography #Psychology #Sociology #Social psychology #Microeconomics #Epistemology #Economics #Artificial intelligence
paper · doi:10.1287/orsc.1100.0578
openalex publication_date 2010/10/23 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
In this paper, we investigate how interorganizational networks and interpersonal networks interact over time. We present a retrospective longitudinal case study of the network system that developed a novel aircraft material and analyze change episodes from a structurationist perspective. We identify five types of episodes in which interpersonal and interorganizational networks interact (persistence, prospecting, consolidation, reconfiguration, and dissolution) and analyze conditions for these episodes and sequences among them. Our findings advance a cross-level perspective on embeddedness and show how individuals may draw on relational and structural embeddedness as distributed resources. The multiple levels of embeddedness impact network dynamics by introducing converging and diverging dialectics, thereby limiting path dependence and proactive network orchestration.