This paper extends current knowledge of industry clusters by disentangling the effects of
networks from cluster (ie, distinctly geographic) mechanisms on firm performance as well as …

Knowledge about the structure and organization of criminal networks is important for both
crime investigation and the development of effective strategies to prevent crimes. However …

I adopt a dyadic perspective to examine the role of social influence on individuals' fulfillment
evaluation of shared psychological contracts. I address two research questions on …

Etwa drei Jahre sind seit dem Erscheinen der 6. Aufgabe des vorliegenden Lehrbuchs
vergangen. Zwar hat sich der Bereich der Organisations-, Management-und …

In this paper we interrelate different theories of identity and describe how various social
contexts and cognitive motives influence the process of identity change. We consider two …

The central concern of this article is the relationship between ethnography and social theory.
With the help of'consequent processualism', a social ontology that centers on the co …

Harrison C. White is one of American sociology's pre-eminent thinkers, yet until now his
endeavour to develop a general theoretical perspective on the basis of social network …

their colleagues gave much weight to teaching, and only 52% rated their colleagues'
teaching highly (Blackburn, Boberg, O'Connell, & Pellino, 1980). A recent University of …

A social network approach is employed to examine the role that social capital plays in the
relationships people have with forested landscapes and to identify the implications of these …

THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLOGY with a clear division between macro and micro
economics. But social theorists appear to be dissatisfied with such divisions. As a result, a …