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American Journal of Sociology | 2011

Fragmented Networks and Entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia

Henning Hillmann; Brandy Aven

Emergent economies suffer from underdeveloped market infrastructures and insufficient public institutions to enforce contract commitments and property rights. Informal reputation-based arrangements may substitute for government enforcement, but they require close-knit networks that enable monitoring. Economic development also requires access to capital, information, and other resources, which is enabled by wide-reaching and diverse networks and not by closure. How is entrepreneurship possible given these conflicting demands? In this article, the authors examine how partnership networks and reputation channel the mobilization of capital for new enterprises, using quantitative information on 4,172 corporate partnerships during the industrialization of late imperial Russia (1869–1913). They find that reputation is locally effective in small and homogeneous network components. By contrast, founders in the largest components that form the network core raise more capital from investors but benefit less from reputation and more from brokerage opportunities and ties that reach diverse communities.


Organization Science | 2018

The Effects of Communication Networks and Turnover on Transactive Memory and Group Performance

Brandy Aven; Jonathan Kush

We theorize that the effect of membership turnover on group processes and performance depends on a group’s communication network. We describe two mechanisms through which communication networks aff...


Management Science | 2017

Structural Role Complementarity in Entrepreneurial Teams

Brandy Aven; Henning Hillmann

To refine the understanding of the social network characteristics of entrepreneurial teams, we present a new construct: structural role complementarity. In particular, we examine the variation between team members’ respective abilities to act as network brokers. Based on the cofounding networks of 9,461 entrepreneurs and 2,446 large-scale industrial enterprises over 45 years in Russia’s emerging economy (1869–1913), our findings show that variation among team members’ brokering ability significantly predicts the starting capital raised by their firm. The effect is moderated by the team’s average brokering potential. When both the team’s average and variation in brokering potential is high, firms raise greater starting capital. By using multiple membership models, we demonstrate that greater starting capital is largely attributable to team factors rather than the attributes of the individual team members. We also take advantage of discriminatory laws that were passed in 1887 in an instrumental variable ana...


Organization Science | 2015

The Paradox of Corrupt Networks: An Analysis of Organizational Crime at Enron

Brandy Aven


Academy of Management Proceedings | 2018

Designing Informal Networks: Implications for Management Theory and Practice

Brandy Aven; Alessandro Iorio; Bill McEvily


Sociological Science | 2016

Social Distance and Knowledge Transformation: The Effects of Social Network Distance on Organizational Learning

Brandy Aven; Evelyn Zhang


Archive | 2016

What makes er teams efficient? A multi-level exploration of environmental, team, and member characteristics

Ishani Aggarwal; Toshio Murase; Evelyn Zhang; Brandy Aven; Anita Williams Woolley


Academy of Management Proceedings | 2015

Appreciation or Awareness? Differential Preferences for Category Spanning in an Online Community

Evelyn Zhang; Brandy Aven


Academy of Management Proceedings | 2015

Disentangling Embedded Ties: How Liking and Trust Influence Partner Selection

Brandy Aven; Taya R. Cohen; Jin Wook Chang


Academy of Management Proceedings | 2014

Exploring Central Questions in Organizational Wrongdoing: A Micro/Macro Approach

Brandy Aven; Lily Morse; Evelyn Zhang

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Evelyn Zhang

Carnegie Mellon University

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Alessandro Iorio

Carnegie Mellon University

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Ishani Aggarwal

Carnegie Mellon University

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Jin Wook Chang

Carnegie Mellon University

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Jonathan Kush

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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Taya R. Cohen

Carnegie Mellon University

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