Social cohesion and knowledge diffusion
Understanding the Embeddedness-Homophily Association
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4237674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anant Kamath (0000-0001-5355-2296, Azim Premji University, corresponding author), Robin Cowan (United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 723-746 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socio-Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ser/mwu024 |
| OpenAlex | W2131059658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
The idea of social relations shaping business and production relations between economic agents is not new. Production relations may become socially embedded and may exhibit homophily. We work towards understanding an embeddedness–homophily connection with the support of a case study of the decline of a formerly dominant handloom weavers' community in Kerala, the Saliyars. We demonstrate that there is a spectrum of cohesion along which network links can be categorised, and that it is homophilous-embeddedness that truly defines cohesion. We build the evidence that the Saliyars' networks were characterised by ‘homophilous-embeddedness’, which, we show, has been relayed across generations. Due to this attribute, the Saliyars are placed as an example that counters the standard line in the literature that community cohesion has been historically congruent to technological progress and knowledge diffusion in handloom in India.
Cohesion (chemistry) · Embeddedness · Homophily · Social science · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks
Small Town Capitalism in Western India
Structural Holes
Small Firms and Network Economies
The Contingent Value of Social Capital
Economics of Social Capital
Economic Action and Social Structure
The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations
Conceiving mobility
Weavers, Merchants and Company
A note on social capital and network content
Embeddedness and Immigration
Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions
Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness
Artisan Cloth-Producers and the Emergence of Powerloom Manufacture in Western India 1920-1950
Acceptance of innovations in early twentieth-century Indian weaving
Social Capital
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |