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The Importance of Embeddedness for Companies’ Activities—Perspective of Relationships and Interactions

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Based on the literature review Ratajczak-Mrozek systematizes positive and negative effects of social embeddedness , interorganizational network embeddedness and territorial embeddedness on companies’ business activities and performance. The concept of embeddedness is used to analyze the impact of social context and personal relationships , interorganizational (business) relationships as well as spatial scope of specific relationships on companies’ activity and performance. The analysis includes both structural embeddedness and relational embeddedness , focusing on the quality of the relationships.

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Ratajczak-Mrozek, M. (2017). The Importance of Embeddedness for Companies’ Activities—Perspective of Relationships and Interactions. In: Network Embeddedness. Palgrave Studies of Internationalization in Emerging Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56511-8_5

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