This book is principally intended for social scientists wanting to undertake social network
research. It assumes the reader already knows a thing or two (perhaps even a lot) about …

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while
Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number …

For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of
technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental …

Current industrial symbiosis (IS) research focuses to a large extent on either (1) how likely
different factors and conditions are to lead to the development of IS exchanges,(2) barriers to …

How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed
computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music. In the 1960s, a …

In this introductory chapter, we clarify how contemporary organizational scholars view
emergence and novelty. As the use of these terms has grown, their meanings have become …

The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is
undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel …

This study examines the impact of legitimacy on the dynamics of interorganizational
networks within the nongovernmental organizations' children's rights community. The 27 …

In this study, I ask:(1) is industry evolution or isomorphism theory a better model for
understanding the change (lack-there-of) among founding team demographics over time?(2) …

Over the last 2 decades employability has worldwide become a key item on the public
agenda due to changing labour market requirements and changing career perspectives …