This study supports the idea that fields form around issues, and describes the roles of various stakeholders in the structuring, shaping, and legitimating of the emerging field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). A model of the institutional history of the CSR field is outlined, of which a...

Economic sociology and economics converge to highlight the role of social networks in the market coordination of agents. Social ties are involved in the flow of information. They constitute social capital for agents who hold them. Their density promotes the emergence of social norms that...

Summary By comparing Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems over twenty years, one illustrates that a firm that outsources exploration through an Acquisition and Development (A&D) strategy of start-ups and exploitation specialization can be more innovative and competitive than an ambidextrous...

[eng] Monopoly organization provides firms with the incentive to invest in its human capital by creating an internal labor market for the specific skills and competencies of their employees. The deregulation of the monopoly disrupts this equilibrium because new entrants will recruit employees of...

[eng] The development of high tech clusters depends on the spatial proximity of a set of complementary and interdependent competencies, which contribute to entrepreneurship and firms' growth. Relating Granovetter's theory of strong and weak ties to situated learning approaches, this articles...