Social Structure and Intermediation: Market‐making Strategies in International Exchange*
基于结构洞理论的核心原理，解释了国际贸易中介如何在现有交换关系必然衰退与寻找替代收入来源的不确定性之间运作，持续寻找新的中介机会。
ABSTRACT Information gaps between markets create opportunities for international trade intermediaries to negotiate cross‐border exchanges. Faced with the prospect of eventually being eliminated from these exchanges, intermediaries must continually search for new opportunities to mediate international exchange. In this paper an original explanation is derived from the core principles of structural hole theory to explain how these market‐making firms operate in the tension found between the inevitable decay of existing exchange relationships and the uncertainty of finding replacement sources of income.