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Deadline extension for the call for papers: 17 january 2011.
Call for papers : Special issue : Production activities and
inter-organizational networks
REDES.REVISTA HISPANA PARA EL ANÁLISIS DE REDES SOCIALES
REDES, Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, is one of
the four international journals focused on social network analysis.
<http://revista-redes.rediris.es>.
REDES is a peer-reviewed electronic journal. Its editorial contents
combine a selection of original empirical research papers, original
Spanish translations of classical and/or important texts in network
analysis, and quality first papers by young researchers.
The official languages are Spanish and Portuguese, but texts are
also published in English or French if their authors wish it so.
Since its creation in 2002, REDES has published more than 150
papers, gathered in 17 issues. It has 1,400 subscribers and more
than 800 daily visitors on its website.
1. Call of papers
This special issue aims to contribute to the reflexion on production
activities and on ways to adequately support them. During the past
two decades, those activities became more distributed between
multiple organizations and circulations of individuals between
organizations have grown. Understanding the characteristics: whether
structural, cultural, or in terms of identity and the stategies of
groups and communities (associated in the development of economic
activities) is necessary in a globalized context where
responsibilities, propriety links and inequalities are distributed
beyond the cognitive ability of the isolated individual.
Inter-organizational networks are the focus of a growing number of
researches. In a context of specialization and globalization,
exchanges between organizations allow for the interfacing of
resources necessary to develop numerous activities. In the course of
its history, economic sociology has confronted the
inter-organizational quality of the process it studies. Since the
foundational work of Harrison White (1981) and his followers,
economic activities cannot be understood without considering social
structures that support them. Those structures are essential in the
understanding of the workings of markets and industries, because
they account for the system of opportunities and constraints in
which individuals acts. Researches focused on the notions of social
capital (Coleman 1990), embeddedness (Polanyi, 1944 ; Granovetter
1985) or the neo-structural approach (Lazega, 2001), showed
interdependencies between organizations are not only of an economic
nature. Experiences, identities, values and social status constitute
other resources flowing between actors that are articulated with
economic resources. In the core of economic exchange a
socio-structural dimension remains.
Social Network Analysis is especially relevant to understand
inter-organizational phenomenom. Among existing reseach, it is
possible to identify two subgroups. In the first, researchers focus
on contractual/formal interdependencies between organizations. Those
researches helped identify, for example, the conditions that allow
organizations to conquer a central position in an industry, to
influence regulatory powers of their activities or to adapt to
technological or normative change. In the second group, researches
focus on personal/informal relations between members of different
organizations. Those researches showed, for example, that multiplex
relationships affect strategic decisions, and the kind of
coordination mechanisms that allow learning inside a collective, or
the multilevel strategies associated to individual and collective
performances.
For this special issue on inter-organizational networks, both
approaches are welcome. The contributions will explore, at this
level of analysis, the workings of an activity, whether cultural,
scientific, industrial, financial, political, etc. The type of
inter-organizational relations observed are limited only by the
creativity of the researchers. The study can focus on, for example,
the professional mobility of technicians, researchers, or company
directors; or the R & D or services contracts of companies, or
between a company and its suppliers. The study can focus on the
study of network of friendship between entrepreneurs, researchers or
professionals; or yet again of inquiries on controlled networks in
health, the army or industrial clusters. Methodological or theoretic
articles will also be considered to the extend that they offer new
tools for, or new ways of, approaching specific constraints for the
study of inter-organizational networks.
2. Practical details
Abstracts/proposals (400 words) can be sent before the end of
July 19, 2010. (This step is optional)
Complete texts should be sent before the end of January 17,
2011
The papers will be published in 2011.
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3. Editor(s) of the special issue
Álvaro PINA-STRANGER Université Paris-Dauphine
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Antoine VERNET Université de Nanterre / Université Paris I
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Emmanuel LAZEGA
Université Paris-Dauphine
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