Three essays on embeddedness and governance structures
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2019-06-28
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Pereira, Susana Carla Farias
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Embeddedness triggers trustworthiness and is addressed as a way of transaction costs economizing and, consequently, impacts on governance structures choices. Embeddedness has at least four dimensions –cultural, structural, cognitive, and political– and is also a consequence of the social structure. This dissertation aims to investigate the microfoundations of social structure, embeddedness, governance structures, and performance. These relations were approached through three chapters respectively aiming: (a) to investigate the relation between social structures, governance structures and operational performance; (b) to expand the role of structural embeddedness in governance structures choices by investigating a situation in which embeddedness can increase transaction costs and favor hierarchical structures; (c) to examine how embeddedness impacts trustworthiness. The methodological procedures included two social network analysis with econometrics analysis and a within-subjects experimental vignette survey. The main findings suggest that governance structures impact operational performance; access to non-redundant information, a well-known consequence of embeddedness, may increases the likelihood of hierarchical structures; and, finally, the dimensions of embeddedness impacts trustworthiness differently.