This paper presents an analysis of secession based on rational choice premises. From
these premises, secession is seen to be the outcome of a series of collective decisions …

Japanese intercorporate relationships are considered in terms of three different structures of
interaction: corporate groupings, financial centrality, and industrial interdependency. The …

This article explores problems caused by nonrespondents in sociometric studies of
organizational communication and describes how networks that include nonrespondents …

Describing the field of sociology as a comprehensive research tradition, this book analyzes
the field's various sub-traditions, and demonstrates that many of these traditions not only …

An analysis of personal communication network properties and kinship ownership
arrangements of the farm provides further evidence of factors influencing the decision to …

This paper is about structural sociology as practiced by one of the more important
sociologists and social thinkers of our day-Harrison White, lately of Columbia University. I …

Competing models of policymaking are integrated at a higher theoretical level into a two-
stage model that distinguishes two different phases in the processes: the decision-taking …

THE URBAN INSTITUTE is a nonprofit policy research and educational organization
established in Washington, DC, in 1968. Its staff investigates the social and economic …

The development of network organizations is increasingly necessary in a global information-
oriented economy. The network organization is a highly decentralized and densely …

Abstract The Late Bronze Age palace at Pylos, or Ano Englianos, was the center of an early
state, a hierarchically and regionally organized system of communities. This system …