Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships in Four High-Tech Communities

English-Lueck, Jan; Darrah, Charles N.; Saveri, Andrea

doi:10.1080/13691180110117677

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“…The main components of thisin terms of organization, resources, and culture -are largely similar both in the domestic and international spheres. However, internationalization poses particular challenges in terms of openness and the tolerance/encouragement of diversity if knowledge is to be absorbed successfully (English -Lucek, Darrah, & Saveri, 2002), and translated into innovation.…”

Section: International Economics Mnes and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Internationalization and innovation in tourism

Williams

Shaw

2011

Annals of Tourism Research

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Section: International Economics Mnes and Innovationmentioning

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Internationalization and innovation in tourism

Williams

Shaw

2011

Annals of Tourism Research

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112

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“…These virtual forms of exchange neither seem to engender personalized trust nor do they unfold the dynamics of networked reputation (see also English-Lueck et al, 2002). Nevertheless, online forums depend on a sort of generalized reciprocity to preserve virtual sources, such as collective knowledge on software, from an imbalance between too little nourishment and over-utilization that increasingly undermines the value of the source (Kollock, 1999).…”

Section: Connectivity: Granovetter's Neglected Sidementioning

confidence: 99%

Bad company? The ambiguity of personal knowledge networks

Grabher¹,

Ibert²

2005

Journal of Economic Geography

173

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Recent debates on learning have shifted the analytical focus from formal organizational arrangements to informal personal ties. Personal knowledge networks, though, mostly are perceived as homogenous, cohesive, and local personal ties. Moreover, a functionalist tone seems to prevail in accounts in which personal knowledge networks are seen to compensate the shortcomings of the formal organization. This paper sets out to expand the dominant construal of networks, which is largely molded by the notion of embeddedness. Against the background of in-depth empirical analysis of the project ecologies of the Hamburg advertising and the Munich software business, the paper will first venture into the neglected sphere of thin, ephemeral, and global personal knowledge networks by differentiating between connectivity, sociality, and communality networks. Second, the paper not only elucidates the supportive functions of these ties but also explores the tensions between personal interests, project goals, and the firm's aims that are induced by these personal knowledge networks.

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“…With the advent of the online economy and small hightech enterprises, there has been a lack of research into the individuals who start them. Studies on the transnational activities of workers and entrepreneurs within Taiwan's high-tech sector (Chang, 1992;Leng, 2002) have demonstrated that there are highly mobile, international jetsetting technical workers who are central to the longstanding links between Silicon Valley, Taiwan and the flow of venture capital (English-Lueck, Darrah, & Saveri, 2002;Sabel & Saxenian, 2008;Saxenian, 2002). Taiwan's brain drain of highly educated graduates of the 1980s (mainly to the USA) has reverted to a more complex web of mobility and the existence of these 'techies' impact on the different locations they operate in (Saxenian & Hsu, 2001), which are now extending into the PRC.…”

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The strengths of close ties: Taiwanese online entrepreneurship, gender and intersectionality

Wing-Fai

2015

Information, Communication & Society

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This article examines entrepreneurs who have started innovative Internet and mobile technology companies in Taiwan because they are at the forefront of industrial changes in the country. Similar to findings in Europe and the USA, education and careers in technology in Taiwan remain dominated by men. However, I argue that the gender inequality of the sector is partly the result of the fact that small new enterprises rely on family support and close social networks. Few women are able to join the sector with male friends and colleagues due to the close social ties of the founding teams (homophily).Among my female interviewees, half have started their nascent companies with their husbands and male partners (husband and wife teams). However, gender, family backgrounds and childcare responsibilities affect both men and women, and the interviewees in my study were open in discussing these personal factors in relation to being entrepreneurs. This article argues that starting an Internet company is a family decision, discussed within the household. Intersectionality, not only gender, explains the founders' decision to start a company, and their choice of co-founders.

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Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships in Four High-Tech Communities

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Internationalization and innovation in tourism

Internationalization and innovation in tourism

Bad company? The ambiguity of personal knowledge networks

The strengths of close ties: Taiwanese online entrepreneurship, gender and intersectionality

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