Brokerage and Closure - An Introduction to Social Capital

Zusatztext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Ron Burt, Ronald S. Burt, Ronald S. (Hobart W. Williams Professor of Strategy and Sociology Burt, Burt Ronald S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2005
• EAN: 9780199249145
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924914-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies; Print On Demand; Print on demand; Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, business strategy, Management & management techniques, Sociology & anthropology, Society and culture: general, Management and management techniques, Sociology and anthropology