Embeddedness, status, and groups: Networks and employment in the American television production

This paper analyzes how network communities condition the effects of embeddedness and status. Many economic fields are segmented into network communities that shape market activity. Using data on the hiring of 39,870 television producers from 1948 to 2010, we show that community membership moderates the effects of embeddedness and status. Embeddedness and status positively affect producers' employment by members of their communities, but negatively impact their employment by non-community members. These results contribute to the understanding of the operation of embeddedness and status in markets and to efforts to incorporate community-level dynamics into network analysis. • Status increases individuals' employment by co-community members, but reduces employment by non-community members. • Embeddedness does not effect individuals’ employment by co-community members, but decreases individuals’ emploment by non-community members. • Inter-group processes create distinct dynamics within and across network communities within a market.