The real work of many governments is done not in stately domed capitols but by a network of
federal and state officials working with local governments and nongovernmental …

On June 28, 2007, the Supreme Court issued rulings in two related cases (collectively
known as the Meredith cases) examining the use of race by K–12 public school districts as a …

For traditional retailers the customer pool is largely bounded in space, whereas an Internet
retailer can obtain customers from a wide geographical area. We examine customer trials at …

Alliances with established organizations provide young firms with resources necessary for
survival. We build on recent organizational research examining the effect of upper echelons …

Humans exhibit a fundamental reliance on interpersonal relations for the acquisition of
information. Gatekeepers, who help link people with unknown information, are the “humans” …

Was sind Communities of Practice (CoPs) und was kennzeichnet CoPs in Unternehmen?
Welche Faktoren beeinflussen die Interaktion zwischen den Mitgliedern einer Community …

Les réseaux sociaux attirent de plus en plus l'attention des chercheurs en sciences sociales
aussi bien en anthropologie, en sociologie, en sciences de la communication, qu'en …

The idea that mobile,'portable'groupings should be considered genuine communities, the
site of the formation of authentic social bonds, has been widely debated and contested …

This dissertation uses a social relational approach to investigate the conditions under which
resource users from seven rural coastal communities cooperate to access fish resources …

Globalization and the Internet are creating a new form of network organization characterized
by networks of cooperating and competing firms. The concept of network organization …