6. Reputation Effects, Embeddedness, and Granovetter’s Error

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1. Complementary Studies on Trust and Cooperation in Social Settings: An Introduction 1
4. Part I: Theoretical Contributions
5. 2. Institutional Design and Human Motivation: The Role of Homo Economicus Assumptions 15
6. 3. Rational Choice Theory, the Model of Frame Selection and Other Dual-Process Theories. A Critical Comparison 41
7. 4. Too Simple Models in Sociology: The Case of Exchange 75
8. 5. Rational Exploitation of the Core by the Periphery? On the Collective (In)efficiency of Endogenous Enforcement of Universal Conditional Cooperation in a Core-Periphery Network 91
9. 6. Reputation Effects, Embeddedness, and Granovetter’s Error 113
10. 7. Robustness of Reputation Cascades 141
11. 8. Organized Distrust: If it is there and that Effective, Why Three Recent Scandals? 153
12. 9. Polarization and Radicalization in the Bounded Confidence Model: A Computer-Aided Speculation 199
13. 10. Local Brokerage Positions and Access to Unique Information 229
14. 11. Who Gets How Much in Which Relation? A Flexible Theory of Profit Splits in Networks and its Application to Complex Structures 249
15. Part II: Experimental Tests
16. 12. Social Identity and Social Value Orientations 295
17. 13. Does Money Change Everything? Priming Experiments in Situations of Strategic Interaction 309
18. 14. Social Norms and Commitments in Cooperatives – Experimental Evidence 319
19. 15. Rational Choice or Framing? Two Approaches to Explain the Patterns in the Fehr-Gächter-Experiments on Cooperation and Punishment in the Contribution to Public Goods 335
20. 16. Maverick: Experimentally Testing a Conjecture of the Antitrust Authorities 357
21. 17. Cooperation, Reputation Effects, and Network Dynamics: Experimental Evidence 391
22. 18. Comparing Consequences of Carrots and Sticks on Cooperation in Repeated Public Good Games 417
23. Part III: Field Studies
24. 19. A Sociological View on Hierarchical Failure: The Effect of Organizational Rules on Exchange Performance in Buyer- Supplier Transactions 443
25. 20. Organizational Innovativeness Through Inter-Organizational Ties 465
26. 21. A Transaction Cost Approach to Informal Care 483
27. 22. Trust is Good – Or is Control Better? Trust and Informal Control in Dutch Neighborhoods – Their Association and Consequences 499
28. 23. Religious Diversity and Social Cohesion in German Classrooms: A Micro-Macro Study Based on Empirical Simulations 525
29. Notes on the Editors and Contributors 545