What is the interrelationship among formal institutions, social networks, and new venture
growth? Drawing on the theory of institutional polycentrism and social network theory, we …

A quantitative approach to social network analysis involves the application of mathematical
and statistical techniques and graphical presentation of results. Nonetheless—as with all …

Research in organizational learning has demonstrated processes and occasionally
performance implications of acquisition of declarative (know-what) and procedural (know …

This paper presents the results of a comparative study of interorganizational networks, or
systems, of mental health delivery in four US cities, leading to a preliminary theory of …

Scholarship establishes a new field of study in the organizational sciences. Just as positive
psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than …

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to
be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications …

This article examines the road that network scholarship has followed in Public
Administration. We look at the historical drivers of the use of networks in practice and …

We explore the association between the context of social relationships and individual
creativity. We go beyond a one-dimensional treatment of social relationships, highlighting …

We introduce social networks theory and methods as a way of understanding mentoring in
the current career context. We iirst introduce a typology of “developmental networks” using …

Network researchers have argued that both relational embeddedness—characteristics of
relationships—and structural embeddedness—characteristics of the relational structure …