Rewiring global networks at local events: congresses in the stock photo trade

Abstract

Digital technologies have enabled the geographical expansion of production and the distribution of creative goods and communication. Simultaneously, the number of trade fairs and congresses has increased. This rise of temporary encounters has led to theorizations of events as marketplaces, learning sites and field-configuring practices. This article elaborates on the metaphor of rewiring to propose and empirically demonstrate a further role of industry events for global business. Drawing on the case of the global stock photo trade, we use a unique survey to map the global network of sales partnerships as well as interviews conducted at international lead congresses to demonstrate how these events are enacted as social relays. Our findings demonstrate how temporary face-to-face contact facilitates long distance relationships between organizations and how it dynamically shapes the global industry network. Thus, we contribute to closing the gap between social action at the micro level, organizational linkages at the meso level and the structure of global industry networks at the macro level.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12134

Patricia L. Rosenfield: A World of Giving: Carnegie Corporation of New York – A Century of International Philanthropy

Journal Name: New Global Studies
Issue: Ahead of print

Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ngs.ahead-of-print/ngs-2016-0008/ngs-2016-0008.xml

Cycle of fear: Syria’s Alawites in war and security

10.1080/09557571.2016.1194581
Daniel Neep

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2016.1194581?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Hezbollah, Islamist politics, and international society

10.1080/09557571.2016.1194578
Michael Clark

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2016.1194578?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Isabela Mares, From open secrets to secret voting: democratic electoral reforms and voter autonomy

10.1080/09557571.2016.1194577
Miguel Centellas

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2016.1194577?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

The political impossibility of counterinsurgency: strategic problems, puzzles, and paradoxes

10.1080/09557571.2016.1189678
Colleen Bell

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2016.1189678?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

State formation in seventeenth-century Ireland: the Restoration financial settlement, 1660–62

10.1080/02606755.2016.1192858
Neil Johnston

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02606755.2016.1192858?ai=2w6&mi=47tg1r&af=R

Erratum

<span class="paragraphSection">The book review ‘Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds’ by Andrew Seaton, was originally published in the Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 4, November 2015, pp. <strong><a href="article.aspx?volume=28&page=928">928–929<span></span></a></strong>, under the DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkv050.</span>

Quelle: https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/29/2/443/1753108/Erratum?rss=1

Erratum

<span class="paragraphSection"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Rise of Child Psychiatry in Portugal: An Intimate Social and Political History, 1915–1959</span></span>

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The Art of the Possible. Politics and Governance in Modern British History, 1885–1997: Essays in Memory of Duncan Tanner

10.1080/02606755.2016.1186913
Jim Tomlinson

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02606755.2016.1186913?ai=2w6&mi=47tg1r&af=R