combining two theoretical frames:the theory of social networks and «Les économies de la grandeur». They will help us to … highlight the social embeddedness of researchers, and how undoing the latter may be managed by the researchers. …

This paper analyzes the evolution and transformation of social relations and networks of access to resources during the … professional career of micro entrepreneurs in the informal African urban economy. Our analysis of social networks fits in the … ‘structural embeddedness’ framework of Granovetter (1985) associated with a dynamic perspective of social relations. This …