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Publication type: Book
Title:

Information systems and global diversity

Author(s): Avgerou,Chrisanthi (Author)
Responsibility Data: Chrisanthi Avgerou
Publication Data: Oxford : Oxford Univerity Press, 2001
Physical Description: viii, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0-19-924077-9  
Subject Area: Sociology
Subject Terms:  Information technology -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies   Organizational change -- Cross-cultural studies 
Call Number: 303.4833 AVG
Accession Number 71408

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Publication type: Article
Title:

Relational and institutional embeddedness of Web-enabled entrepreneurial networks: case studies of netrepreneurs in China

Author(s): Avgerou,Chrisanthi (Author)
Source Journal Info. Title:Information Systems Journal
Issue Number:2013/JUL V.23 N.4
Call No.:004.05 ISJ
Location: References & Periodical Hall - 2nd floor
Physical Description: p 329-350
Subject Area: Computer
Subject Terms:  Information systems   Information technology 
Accession Number 102098
Abstract
Drawing from a multidisciplinary literature, we form a theoretical perspective of the social embeddedness of economic activity as interpersonal ties that are formed in relation to the institutions of an economy. From this perspective, we then seek to explain the emergence of networks of micro-entrepreneurs that conduct their business on the Taobao Web platform in China, and we derive theoretical propositions about the social embeddedness of Web platform-based economic activity. Two case studies of such networks show how Web platform tools and services create conditions of possibility for developing online business by micro-entrepreneurs and for overcoming cultural reluctance of economic exchange with strangers. ...

Abstract URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isj.12012/abstract

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