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Structural holes : the social structure of competition /

This analysis of the social structural theory of competition focuses on the "structural hole": a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information. When the two are connected through a third "entrepreneur", the gap is filled, creating important advantages fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burt, Ronald S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Social Structure of Competition
  • Opportunity and Capital
  • Information
  • Structural Holes
  • Control and the Tertius Gaudens
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Secondary Holes
  • Structural Autonomy
  • Summary
  • 2. Formalizing the Argument
  • Network Data
  • Redundancy
  • Constraint
  • Hole Signature
  • Structural Autonomy
  • Summary
  • 3. Turning a Profit
  • Product Networks and Market Profit
  • The Study Population
  • Hole Effects
  • Market Hole Signatures
  • Summary
  • Appendix: Weighing Alternatives4. Getting Ahead
  • Contact Networks and Manager Achievement
  • The Study Population
  • Hole Effects
  • Hierarchy
  • Institutional Holes
  • Selecting a Network
  • Summary
  • Appendix A: Weighing Alternatives
  • Appendix B: Causal Order
  • 5. Player-Structure Duality
  • Structural Unit of Analysis
  • Players and Structures
  • Escape from Attributes
  • No Escape
  • Summary
  • 6. Commit and Survive
  • Holes and Heterogeneity
  • Interface and the Commit Hypothesis
  • Population Ecology and the Survival Hypothesis
  • Summary7. Strategic Embedding and Institutional Residue
  • The Other Tertius
  • Strategy Hypothesis
  • Formal Organization as Social Residue
  • Personality as Emotional Residue
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index