The social and economic bases of network multiplexity: Exploring the emergence of multiplex ties
The social and economic bases of network multiplexity: Exploring the emergence of multiplex ties
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DOI：
10.1177/1476127012461576
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Corrado, Raffaele
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作者：
Ferriani, Simone;Fonti, Fabio;Corrado, Raffaele
本文的目的是阐明TIE内容在组织间网络中多元关系--即同时具有经济和社会成分的关系--演变中的作用。通过检验两种与内容相关的不同逻辑--社会互动和经济交换--及其潜在机制导致多重联系出现的程度，作者阐明并扩展了网络多元化的理论框架。对位于意大利多媒体集群的企业的纵向网络分析结果支持了作者的假设，证实了社会和经济驱动因素都有助于网络多元化的出现，并且社会联系对这一过程的影响强于经济联系，从而进一步洞察了网络演化的微观动力学。
The goal of this article is to shed light on the role of tie content in the evolution of multiplex ties - i.e., ties featuring both an economic and a social component - in interorganizational networks. The authors clarify and extend the theoretical framework on network multiplexity by testing the extent to which two distinct tie content-related logics - social interaction and economic exchange - and their underlying mechanisms lead to the emergence of multiplex ties. Results from a longitudinal network analysis of firms located in an Italian multimedia cluster support the authors' hypotheses, confirming that both social and economic drivers contribute to the emergence of network multiplexity, and that social ties have a stronger impact than economic ties on this process, thus providing further insight into the microdynamics of network evolution.