Metadata
- Author: Sci.bban
- Full Title:: Fitting in or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Déjame Sin Trabajo Por Favor,
- URL:: https://sci.bban.top/pdf/10.1177/0003122416671873.pdf?download=true
- Finished date:: 2023-05-07
Highlights
the informational returns to spanning structural holes are greater for people who fit culturally with their colleagues in an organization, whereas individuals who are structurally embedded—that is, have high levels of network constraint—can enjoy the benefits of cultural distinctiveness. Thus, career success is, in part, a two-dimensional balancing act of structural and cultural embeddedness (View Highlight)
these different accounts are, in fact, two sides of the same coin: they are the structural and cultural manifestations of the challenge of balancing social belongingness with differentiation, which, we contend, stands at the heart of what Granovetter (1985) termed the “problem of embeddedness” three decades ago (View Highlight)
the returns to brokerage depend on an individual’s level of cultural fit with the peers she communicates with by dint of the structural position she occupies within a firm (View Highlight)
we anticipate that the contingent advantages of structural and cultural embeddedness should play out similarly in social settings that are not strictly organizational. (View Highlight)