Neighbor networks : competitive advantage local and personal / Ronald S. Burt.

There is a moral to this book, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing." This advice is contrary to the usual social network emphasis on securing relations with well-connected people. Neighbor Networks e...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Burt, Ronald S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; People You Know versus the People They Know; So What?; Overview of the Book; PART I: Establishing Secondhand Brokerage; 2 Process Clues in Network Spillover; 3 Balkanized Networks; 4 More Connected Networks; PART II: Testing the Perimeter; 5 Industry Networks; 6 Closure and Stability; 7 Mishpokhe, Not; PART III: Exploring Implications; 8 Bent Preferences; Appendices; A: Measuring the Network; B: Measuring Access to Structural Holes; C: Measuring Analyst Accuracy; D: Industry Networks; E: Means, Standard Deviations, and Correlations.