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 …

The tendency for relationships to weaken and disappear I discuss as decay, and functions
describing the rate of decay over time I discuss as decay functions. Three conclusions are …

A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of
information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their …

This longitudinal study used data from 91 self-managed teams (456 individuals, 60
nationalities) to examine the interactive effects of a team's task (“workflow”) network structure …

Very little has been written in scholarly or popular venues on the conceptualization and
utilization of the term network to describe terrorist organizing. In this paper, we identify …

Since the 1980s, there has been considerable popular and academic interest in self-
organizing systems theory (Prigogine & Stengers, 1984) and chaos theory (Gleick, 1987) …

This book analyses productive systems from a structural relational perspective, linking the
structure and evolution of productive systems to economic development. An epistemological …

This paper addresses both the connections between criminals and terrorists and the
potential overlap and meshing of their networks and considers the implications of these …

This essay further substantiates the general thesis that communication theory and research
can make vast strides by paying more attention to nonlinear dynamics than by continued …

Organizational network analysis was used to study information use in a health department.
Public health performance depends on specialized information that travels throughout an …