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Brokerage and Closure
Ronald S. Burt
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Description for Brokerage and Closure
hardcover. Explores the nature of brokerage and closure. Closure is the tightening of coordination in a network of people. This book explores how these elements work together to define social capital, showing how in the business world reputation has come to replace authority, pursued opportunity assignment. Series: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, Numerous figures and tables. BIC Classification: JF; KJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 585.
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 create ... 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 create ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199249145
SKU
V9780199249145
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Reviews for Brokerage and Closure
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.
AMR, Management Review
AMR, Management Review