Three essays on embeddedness and governance structures

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Daniel Gonçalves
• Orientador(a): Pereira, Susana Carla Farias
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Português: Enraizamento; Estruturas de governança; Estrutura social; Confiança; Análise de redes sociais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Embeddedness; Governance structures; Social structure; Trustworthiness; Social network analysis
• Link de acesso: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27764

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.