In Latin America, the 1970s left very complicated memories for most people. All the countries from the south of the continent were ruled by violent dictatorships strongly based on ideology. In Buenos Aires, the last dictatorship was also a fertile period of musical creativity. Most of the bands...

Various authors have shown the importance of collaborative relationships for inter- organizational performance, the mode of governance or the trajectory of biotechnology companies. Most of these works analyze the exclusive contractual agreements between companies and their main relationships...

D’Adam Smith à Harrison White, la concurrence a été vue comme principalement oligopolistique et le milieu social sous-jacent a été conçu comme ayant une importance essentielle dans ce type de concurrence. Il existe des nterdépendances entre entrepreneurs concurrents, ainsi qu’une...

Considerable media attention was focused on how U.S. presidential candidates in 2008 integrated Facebook and other social networking sites into their campaign strategies. In this context, understanding the formation and utilization of online social networks becomes important. Social network...

Institutional embeddedness of markets and institutions exercising social control over markets have been topics of research for economic sociology for a long time. Historically, business communities created their own regulations, before using the State to legalize and enforce their norms. This...

The purpose of this paper is to explain why low-wage workers with identical qualifications to higher-wage workers are more exposed to unemployment. Each worker is considered to belong to a social group (defined according to his/her gender, age, and nationality). We assume that workers experience...

According to Roney (2003), when exposed to potential mates (young women), men show greater conformity to female mate preferences. This study conceptually replicates and extends this finding to show that women also respond to female physical attractiveness. When exposed to attractive women...

How does Social Media (SM) impact the Stakeholder Theory and the stakeholder environment of organizations? This paper focuses on stakeholder coalitions and SM-driven social movements. Organized resistance and mounted pressure, which disrupt corporations’ activities and oblige change, are a...

The importance of family solidarity networks is routinely cited in the literature to explain why the relationship between number of children and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa does not follow the predicted theoretical pattern. The dilemma between "quantity" and "quality" of children may be less...

Adopting a neo-structural perspective (Moore, 1990; Ibarra, 1995; Burt, 1995, 1998; Lin, 1995; Lazega, 2011, 2012), the present paper investigates the societal and organizational resistances (structural effect) and the relational biases (networking effect) hindering the professional advancement of...