Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
Actors and associates often match on a few dimensions that matter most for the relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have broader attitudes and preferences than would-be contacts considered when they first chose to pair. The autho...
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| author | Liu, Christopher C. Stuart, Toby E. Azoulay, Pierre |
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| description | Actors and associates often match on a few dimensions that matter most for the relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have broader attitudes and preferences than would-be contacts considered when they first chose to pair. The authors label as “partially deliberate” social matching that occurs on a small set of attributes, and they present empirical methods for identifying causal social influence effects when relationships follow this generative logic. A data set tracking the training and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists is used to show that young scientists adopt their advisers’ orientations toward commercial science as evidenced by adviser-to-advisee transmission of patenting behavior. The authors demonstrate this in twostage models that account for the endogeneity of matching, using both inverse probability of treatment weights and an instrumental variables approach. They also draw on qualitative methods to support a causal interpretation. Overall, they present a theory and a triangulation of methods to establish evidence of social influence when tie formation is partially deliberate. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1132182022-09-29T19:54:33Z Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Liu, Christopher C. Stuart, Toby E. Azoulay, Pierre Sloan School of Management Azoulay, Pierre Actors and associates often match on a few dimensions that matter most for the relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have broader attitudes and preferences than would-be contacts considered when they first chose to pair. The authors label as “partially deliberate” social matching that occurs on a small set of attributes, and they present empirical methods for identifying causal social influence effects when relationships follow this generative logic. A data set tracking the training and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists is used to show that young scientists adopt their advisers’ orientations toward commercial science as evidenced by adviser-to-advisee transmission of patenting behavior. The authors demonstrate this in twostage models that account for the endogeneity of matching, using both inverse probability of treatment weights and an instrumental variables approach. They also draw on qualitative methods to support a causal interpretation. Overall, they present a theory and a triangulation of methods to establish evidence of social influence when tie formation is partially deliberate. 2018-01-16T20:46:40Z 2018-01-16T20:46:40Z 2017-01 2018-01-16T19:13:12Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0002-9602 1537-5390 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113218 Azoulay, Pierre et al. “Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs.” American Journal of Sociology 122, 4 (January 2017): 1223–1271 © 2017 University of Chicago https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6511-4824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/689890 American Journal of Sociology Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press |
| spellingShingle | Liu, Christopher C. Stuart, Toby E. Azoulay, Pierre Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs |
| title | Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs |
| title_full | Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs |
| title_fullStr | Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs |
| title_short | Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs |
| title_sort | social influence given partially deliberate matching career imprints in the creation of academic entrepreneurs |
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