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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AS
COLLECTIVE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND RESOURCE SEARCH
by
Lin Chai
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Lin Chai
Object Description
| Title | Community structure as collective identity construction and resource search |
| Author | Chai, Lin |
| Author email | chai@marshall.usc.edu; ccummin2@csulb.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Business Administration |
| School | Marshall School of Business |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-07-27 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 11 Sep. 2011. |
| Date published | 2011-09-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Rajagopalan, Nandini |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kennedy, Mark T. Monge, Peter |
| Abstract | Drawing from organizational ecology, network, and economic sociology theories, our study investigates how the mechanisms of collective identity construction and resource sharing contribute to the formation of various structural tendencies at the community level. Here, community is defined as an aggregation of the network of inter-organizational ties. Community also consists of various organizational forms connected by commensalistic and symbioticrelations. These interdependencies are manifested in a number of interaction patterns reflecting the macrostructure of the community. Using the U. S. film industry as our empirical context, we analyze collaboration networks among film producers at two points in time - 1985 and 2005 – to examine these interaction patterns. Our findings suggest that both collective identity construction and research sharing mechanisms explain decentralized, polycentric structuraltendencies of the film producer community.; In addition, generalists that are highly diversified tend not to collaborate with each other. They also are less likely to collaborate with specialists within a narrow technological space. Collaboration is most likely to occur among producers that are moderately diversified and have greater technological distance from each other. In addition, we found that producers differing in cultural identity are not precluded from collaboration with each other, which is especially true for member organizations from the dominant population. High-reputation producers tend to attract more collaborative partners, but they tend to cooperate only with other high reputationpartners. Just as status-based competition is localized (Podolny, 1993; 1994), status-based cooperation is also localized to the extent that producers tend to interact with those who are in similar status categories. Community structure exhibits such tendencies and becomes polycentric and clustered around different status categories. Our findings resonate with Fligstein’s (2001) political-cultural approach to the market. |
| Keyword | collaboration networks; community structure; identity; resource exchange |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1985; 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2602 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Chai, Lin |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Chai-3224 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Chai-3224.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AS COLLECTIVE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND RESOURCE SEARCH by Lin Chai A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Lin Chai |
