For a long time the concept of networks has been used in engineering for the management
of complex systems, in particular in communications and transport. In the 1960 and 1970s …

This paper reviews recent developments in the analysis of business power and the
corporate elite, focussing on those approaches rooted in the techniques of social network …

Labor economists have long recognized that many workers find jobs through friends and
relatives; personnel researchers argue that employee referrals are a useful device for …

Public administration practitioners and scholars harbor no illusions about organizational
perfection (cf. Jaffee 1973). 1 They do not expect bureaucracies to be error-free. People …

This study explicates and tests three network-based mechanisms whereby individuals'
attitudes toward an integrated health information system may be influenced by the attitudes …

This article reviews recent theoretical developments in four areas of organizational
communication that have a common concern with information processing: communication …

Using panel data from a national survey of married persons, the role of social integration in
stabilizing marriage is explored. The analysis indicates that social integration does not …

Last but not least möchte ich die beiden begutachtenden Hochschullehrerlnnen nennen,
Helga Krüger und Heiner Keupp, deren ermutigende intellektuellen Impulse mir zu dem …

Shortly after 11: 00 am on the bright, sunlit morning of July 19, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
walked to the front of the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. The time had come …

As one of the most powerful information disseminators, socializing agents, and public
opinion molders in the contemporary world, television has been studied extensively …