Peer Capitalism
Parallel Relationships in the U.S. Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7610102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ezra W Zuckerman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), V Sgourev (0000-0003-3561-9201, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Stoyan V Sgourev |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1327-1366 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/499506 |
| OpenAlex | W2070080437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 88 |
We gain insight into the reasons why capitalists maintain social relationships with one another by analyzing a largely unexamined type of relationship—that which links “parallel peers” or noncompeting enterprises in the same industry—and an institution—the industry peer network or IPN—that is specifically designed for supporting small, exclusive groups of parallel peers. A wide array of qualitative and quantitative data show parallel relationships in general, and IPNs in particular, to be surprisingly prevalent, especially in light of the focus of past research on horizontal and vertical relationships and institutions. In addition, analysis of parallel relationships and the institutions that cultivate them sheds light on key mechanisms by which capitalist enterprises learn from one another and motivate one another to achieve higher performance
Business · Capitalism · Economics · Economy · Focus (optics) · Industrial organization · Institution · Key (lock) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Social Capital and Networks
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Three Lenses on Occupations and Professions in Organizations
How Paris Gave Rise to Cubism (and Picasso)
Organizing the in-Between
Women Lifting Up Women
Social Networks and Employment
Breaking up is hard to do
Competitive Embeddedness and the Emergence of Interfirm Cooperation
The Growth of Internet Research Methods and the Reluctant Sociologist
Rankings and Reactivity
Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures
Leaving in Droves
Commitment, Learning, and Alliance Performance
The Structure of Reciprocity
The Emergence of Embedded Relations and Group Formation in Networks of Competition
Coercion from autonomization
Changing perspective
Interdependent Career Types and Divergent Standpoints on the Use of Advanced Technology in Medicine
Therapy Culture for the Business Class
Construction, Concentration, and (Dis)Continuities in Social Valuations
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Status
Permanently failing organizations
Corporate profits and cooptation
Essays in positive economics
Managing Across Borders
Non-Contractual Relations in Business
Economic Action and Social Structure
Markets from Networks
Social Network Analysis
The Use of Knowledge in Society
A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm
The myopia of learning
Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm
Protecting Their Intellectual Assets
The cornerstones of competitive advantage
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Cooperation between rivals
When Market Information Constitutes Fields
Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting
Organizational Culture
Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage
A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
Theory of the firm
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning
Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm
Cooperation between Rivals
Economic Action and Social Structure
The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations
Detecting role equivalence
Accountability
The External Control of Organizations
Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory
Accountability and the Perseverance of First Impressions
The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits
The Role-Set
Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions
The Social Organization of Conspiracy
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Identification as the Basis for a Theory of Motivation
Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital
Structural Incoherence and Stock Market Activity
Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Corporate Law Market
Accounting for the effects of accountability
The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited
Ulysses Unbound
Varieties in Capitalism, Varieties of Association
Network Forms of Organization
Rankings and Reactivity
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Middle-Status Conformity
Friendships among Competitors in the Sydney Hotel Industry
The Myth of the M-Form? Governance, Consent, and Organizational Change
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The Social Structure of a National Securities Market
Corporate Ownership and Control
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |