Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks

Papers by US and international contributors shed light on current thinking on social network analysis in the study of organizations. After an introduction on current controversies in social network research, papers are grouped in sections on theory, methods, and applications. Some specific subjects addressed include interfirm networks, decoupling third-party action from social network structure, negative ties in organizational networks, and the accuracy of egocentered network data. Other areas examined include the network dynamics of social status, the causal status of social capital in labor markets, corporate social capital in Chinese guanxi culture, and the use of visual network scales to capture perceptions of social networks. The book is distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2014 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)