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Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital
Ronald S. Burt
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Description for Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital
Paperback. Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions in markets, organizations, and careers. Ronald S. Burt builds on his celebrated work in this area to explore these issues. Series: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, Numerous figures and tables. BIC Classification: JH; KJC; KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations, and careers become more and more dependent on informal, discretionary relationships. The formal organization deals with accountability; Everything else flows through the informal: advice, coordination, cooperation friendship, gossip, knowledge, trust. Informal relations have always been with us, they have always mattered. What is new is the range of activities in which they now matter, and the emerging clarity we have about how they ... Read more
Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations, and careers become more and more dependent on informal, discretionary relationships. The formal organization deals with accountability; Everything else flows through the informal: advice, coordination, cooperation friendship, gossip, knowledge, trust. Informal relations have always been with us, they have always mattered. What is new is the range of activities in which they now matter, and the emerging clarity we have about how they ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199249152
SKU
V9780199249152
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Reviews for Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital
Review from previous edition Burt is among the best social network writers in articulating ideas from a research tradition that is notoriously difficult to put into words. Brokerage and Closure is the next step in research on social capital.
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