Social capital is defined as the individual's pool of social resources found in his/her personal
network. A recent study on Italians living as couples has shown that friendship relationships …

Cluster policy is increasingly becoming part of many governments' economic policy
strategies. At the same time, evidence-based policy-making is gaining importance, bringing …

Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting
social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book …

Social Network Analysis and Education: Theory, Methods & Applications provides an
introduction to the theories, methods, and applications that constitute the social network …

Most of the critical real-world networks are continuously changing and evolving with time.
Motivated by the growing importance and widespread impact of this type of networks, the …

Most sociological research assumes that social network composition shapes individual
beliefs. Network theory and research has not adequately considered that internalized …

This essay proposes to view networks as sociocultural structures. Following authors from
Leopold von Wiese and Norbert Elias to Gary Alan Fine and Harrison White, networks are …

In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces
and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society …

We study the large-scale topology and dynamics of maps of alliances in a major segment of
the biotechnology industry. The results point to the joint dynamics of network and innovation …

An analysis is reported of 2,408 wiretap conversations gathered in the course of prosecuting
a heroin dealing organization in New York City in the 1990s. The five-step analysis, which …