Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Social Networks and Organizations Martin Kilduff Wenpin Tsai SAGE
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In addition to all the usual ethical problems that can arise with any kind of inquiry, network
analyses, by their very nature, introduce special ethical problems that should be recognized …

RONALD L. BREIGER 'direct observation does reveal to us that… human beings are
connected by a complex network of social relations. I use the term “social structure” to …

Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in
economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses …

One of the debates surrounding social network analysis has been whether it consists of a
method or a theory. Is network analysis merely a cluster of techniques for analyzing the …

This paper reviews the development of social network analysis and examines its major
areas of application in sociology. Current developments, including those from outside the …

Thirteen years ago Tichy (1981) suggested that organizational research incorporate a
network perspective. There has been a great deal of research on interorganizational …

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network research across
the physical and social sciences. For social scientists, the theory of networks has been a …

Research on social networks has grown considerably in the last decade. However, there is a
certain amount of confusion about network theory—for example, what it is, what is distinctive …

Throughout the book, we use empirical examples to illustrate the material. Because social
networks are studied in a variety of traditional academic disciplines, we draw our examples …