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标题：Structural Embeddedness and Community-Building through Collaborative Network Relationships
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作者：Kathryn Pavlovich ; Kate Kearins
期刊名称：M@n@gement
印刷版ISSN：1286-4892
出版年度：2004
卷号：7
期号：3
出版社：D M S P Research Center
摘要：This paper examines the role of structural embeddedness as an organising phe-nomenon within interdependent networks. While conceptual and philosophical in nature,data from a longitudinal ethnographic case study of an icon tourism destination is usedto illustrate new framings of this concept. This method of research enables deeperinsights to be attained that add both explanation and understanding to our current appre-ciation of the interdependent organizing phenomena. The case data illustrate how thenetwork has structural attributes of heterogeneity, interconnection and reciprocity thatcontribute to its anti-hierarchical state. This enables an infinite number of structural pos-sibilities to occur, some of which can be developed to form strategic capabilities thatbelong to the network. Assisting this process, is a symbiotic and mutual participationfrom the interdependent actors which critiques the notion of structural redundancy. Thepaper illustrates how the aggregated patterns have formed in the network and how recip-rocal obligation has built long term exchange patterns that contribute to forming theembedded macroculture