In recent years, we have witnessed the rapid proliferation and widespread adoption of a new
class of information technologies, commonly known as social media. Researchers often rely …

Network brokerage research has grown rapidly in recent decades, spanning the boundaries
of multiple social science disciplines as well as diverse research areas within management …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS for EGO-NETS Page 3 SAGE was
founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by …

Universities play a well-established role in regional economic growth, one contribution to
which is academic entrepreneurship, the establishment and support of faculty and graduate …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the analysis of collaborative learning. The
approach posits that different dimensions of collaborative learning emerging from social ties …

We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as terms of
the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the …

Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in
business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key …

Relational leadership is a relatively new term in the leadership literature, and because of
this, its meaning is open to interpretation. In the present article I describe two perspectives of …

Networks are ubiquitous in science and have become a focal point for discussion in
everyday life. Formal statistical models for the analysis of network data have emerged as a …

Intuitively, organisations can easily be categorised as 'public'or 'private'. However, this book
questions such a black and white dichotomy between public and private, and seeks a …