Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4742674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amir Goldberg (0000-0002-0858-3058, Stanford University), B Srivastava (0000-0001-8793-0793, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), Sameer B Srivastava, Govind Manian, V Govind Manian (Stanford University), William Monroe (0000-0001-9986-5079, Stanford University), Christopher Potts (0000-0002-7978-6055, Stanford University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1190-1222 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003122416671873 |
| OpenAlex | W2547654003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
| References cited | 95 |
A recurring theme in sociological research is the tradeoff between fitting in and standing out. Prior work examining this tension tends to take either a structural or a cultural perspective. We fuse these two traditions to develop a theory of how structural and cultural embeddedness jointly relate to individual attainment within organizations. Given that organizational culture is hard to observe, we develop a novel approach to assessing individuals' cultural fit with their colleagues based on the language expressed in internal e-mail communications. Drawing on a unique dataset that includes a corpus of 10.24 million e-mail messages exchanged over five years among 601 employees in a high-technology firm, we find that network constraint impedes, whereas cultural fit promotes, individual attainment. More importantly, we find evidence of a tradeoff between the two forms of embeddedness: cultural fit benefits individuals with low network constraint (i.e., brokers), whereas network constraint promotes attainment for people with low cultural fit
Constraint (computer-aided design) · Economics · Embeddedness · Positive economics · Set (abstract data type) · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
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| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |