An increasing body of research suggests job embeddedness (JE) as a motivational variable influencing employees’ attitudinal and behavioral outcomes such quitting intentions task performance. Personal resources have been reported to affect JE these outcomes. However, little work has investigated the antecedents consequences among cabin attendants. There is also dearth empirical regarding mechani...

Purpose Drawing on embeddedness theory, we examine how skilled immigrants' perceived brain-waste affects their social embeddedness. Social facilitates the acquisition of host country-specific human capital, which, in return, can accelerate transfer capital workplace. Design/methodology/approach In total, 397 immigrants Australia participated this study. We applied a set-theoretic approach to de...

“Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness,” which originally appeared in American Science Quarterly 1997 (Vol. 42, No. 1), was recently recognized in an Academy of Management Journal editors' forum as a particularly valuable and compelling example of empirical research. In the paper, Uzzi illustrates how social embeddedness affects organization network...

Previous research has tended to focus on general best practices for onboarding organizational newcomers. In this study, we shift the conversation instead address question: whom are certain socialization tactics more or less beneficial? Whereas institutionalized provide considerable structure intended reduce uncertainty and help newcomers adjust, is known about whether how individual psychologic...

I argue that in its adaptation from Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, the concept of embeddedness has itself undergone a great transformation. In the process, signifi cant meanings of the concept have vanished, while others have been added. First I explore the different meanings the concept of embeddedness has achieved in the new economic sociology. Then I argue that it is not the embedd...

The reciprocity and reputation in social networks are considered as important factors to develop mutual trust in interfirm cooperation. Because of new insights gleaned from. the embeddedness approach, many researchers discuss this by giving considerable attention to the special quality of ties and the structural properties of social networks that facilitate the building of interorganizational t...