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La Direction Scientifique et la Direction des Affaires Internationales et des Echanges invitent
le Mercredi 3 juin 2009 à 17 heures
en salle du Conseil au 13 rue de l'Université
à une conférence de
David STARK
Director of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University , director of the Center on Organizational Innovation. He works on organizational forms and on an historical network analysis of ties between enterprises and political parties. Stark's recent publications include: "Sociotechnologies of Assembly" (with Monique Girard) in Governance and Information: The Rewiring of Governing and Deliberation in the 21st Century (2007); "Rooted Transnational Publics: Integrating Foreign Ties and Civic Activism." (with Balazs Vedres and Laszlo Bruszt) in Theory and Society (2006)"
"What is a Social Group Across Time in Network Terms?"
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 develop a concept of intercohesion and identify a distinctive network position, structural fold, at the overlap of cohesive group structures. Actors at the structural fold are multiple insiders, participating in dense cohesive ties that provide close familiarity with the operations of both groups. Intercohesion provides familiar access to diverse resources. First, we test whether intercohesion contributes to higher group performance. Second, because entrepreneurship is a process of generative disruption, we test intercohesion’s contribution to group instability. Third, we move from dynamic methods to historical network analysis and demonstrate that coherence is a property of interwoven lineages of cohesion that are built up through an ongoing pattern of separation and reunification. Business groups use this pattern of interweaving to manage instability while benefitting from intercohesion. To study the evolution of business groups, we construct a dataset that records personnel ties among the largest 1,696 Hungarian enterprises from 1987- 2001.
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/stark/faculty.html
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