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Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action.
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EntrepreneurshipIndustrial OrganizationManagementGlobal StrategySocial Network AnalysisTechnology TransferNetwork Theory (Organizational Economics)Part 1Organizational SystemsInter-firm CoordinationVenture CapitalStrategic ManagementInterorganizational RelationshipNetworked OrganizationNetwork ScienceOrganizational CommunicationOrganizational StructureBusinessOrganization TheoryBusiness StrategyKnowledge ManagementLinking StructureNetwork Governance
Economic sociology examines how network structure shapes agency and action, exploring relational and cultural aspects of organizational form, the influence of centrality and strong ties on power and innovation, and the role of inter‑organizational alliances in biotechnology, thereby laying the groundwork for a network theory of organizational effectiveness. The study concludes that network research can be made relevant to practice.
Part 1 Linking structure and action: problems of explanation in economic sociology the social structure of competition agency as control in formal networks Nadel's paradox revisited - relational and cultural aspects of organizational structure doing your job and helping your friends - universalistic norms about obligations to particular others in networks structural alignments, individual strategies and managerial action - elements towards a network theory of getting things done. Part 2 Different network ties and their implications: centrality and power in organizations the strength of strong ties - the importance of philos in organizations information and search in the creation of new business ventures - the case of the 128 Venture Group complementary communication media - a comparison of electronic mail and face-to-face communication in a programming team face-to-face - making network organizations work. Part 3 Organizational environmental relations as inter-organizational networks: strategic alliances in commercial biotechnology the make-or-cooperate decision in the context of an industry network competitive co-operation in biotechnology - learning through networks? Part 4 Network forms of organizations: the network organization in theory and practice fragments of a cognitive theory of technological change and organizational structure small-firm networks on the limits of a firm-based theory to explain business networks - the Western bias of neoclassical economics the organization of business networks in the United States and Japan. Conclusion: making network research relevant to practice.