Opening closure: intercohesion and entrepreneurial dynamics in business groups

Abstract: "Entrepreneurial groups face a twinned challenge: recognizing new ideas and implementing them. Recent research suggests that connectivity reaching outside the group channels new ideas, while closure makes it possible to act on them. By contrast, we argue that entrepreneurship is not about importing ideas but about generating new knowledge by recombining resources. In contrast to the brokerage-plus-closure perspective, we identify a distinctive network position, intercohesion, which is found at the overlap of cohesive group structures. The multiple insiders at this intercohesive position participate in dense cohesive ties that provide close familiarity with the operations of the members in their groups. Because they are members of multiple cohesive groups, they have familiar access to diverse resources. First, we test whether intercohesion contributes to higher group performance. Second, because entrepreneurship is a process of creative disruption, we test intercohesion's contributi

Object Details

• Alternative title: Geschlossenheit öffnen: Interkohäsion und unternehmerische Dynamiken in Berufsgruppen
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 40 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: MPIfG Discussion Paper ; Bd. 09/3

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Unternehmer ; Führungskraft ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Netzwerk ; Unternehmen ; Konzern ; :z Geschichte 1987-2001 ; Ungarn

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Köln
• (when): 2009
• Creator: Stark, David ; Vedres, Balázs
• Contributor: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-302698
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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