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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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