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Identity from economic networks.

Hillmann, Henning.

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Identity from economic networks.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Identity from economic networks./
Author:	Hillmann, Henning.
Description:	184 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Peter S. Bearman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3128968
ISBN:	9780496762286

Identity from economic networks.
Hillmann, Henning.

Identity from economic networks. - 184 p.

Adviser: Peter S. Bearman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2004.

The topic of this study is how political and organizational identities emerge from economic networks in which they are embedded. I emphasize that the transposability of economic ties provides a social relational mechanism for identity formation. Transposability means that economic ties can be employed to abstract similar patterns of social relations from the concrete settings at hand. Transposable ties thus align the same individuals in the same way even if the particular context in which these people are situated changes.

ISBN: 9780496762286Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Identity from economic networks.
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520 $a The topic of this study is how political and organizational identities emerge from economic networks in which they are embedded. I emphasize that the transposability of economic ties provides a social relational mechanism for identity formation. Transposability means that economic ties can be employed to abstract similar patterns of social relations from the concrete settings at hand. Transposable ties thus align the same individuals in the same way even if the particular context in which these people are situated changes.
520 $a The link between identity formation and economic networks is analyzed in two substantively important historical settings. The first concerns identity formation through social cohesion in the emergent state of Vermont during the American Revolution. I show how individuals who broker transposable economic ties can turn this strategic position into political advantage. In particular, positioning in credit networks enabled local elites to forge cohesive political alliances and identities out of multiple and partly overlapping foci of contention. The coupling of credit networks and localist identities locked political actors into a rigid alliance system that corresponded directly to the opposition between Jeffersonian Republicans and Federalists at the national level.
520 $a The second case concerns identity formation among English merchant elites who promoted the expansion of overseas trade and colonization during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period. I demonstrate how merchant entrepreneurs organized themselves through equivalent positions in investment networks. First, the shared experience of similar patterns of investment specialization in eastern trade markets distinguished them from the investment patterns of the gentry. Second, the organizational field of overseas companies developed a core-periphery structure, centered on the eastern trading companies in which the rising merchant elite specialized. The new merchant identity therefore emerged on the basis of a duality of sequential behavioral patterns and equivalent positioning in the inter-organizational network.
520 $a The cases suggest two elementary structures underlying identity formation. Cohesion-based identity rests on a high density of strong within-group ties, coupled with boundaries between subsets. Equivalence-based identity arises from shared patterns of social relationships that transcend localized political organization.
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