Networks (Critical Studies in Economic Institutions series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843760355 ISBN 13: 9781843760351

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This major two-volume collection presents a comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature exploring the emergence, functioning and forms of networks, focusing on their role in the economy. The collection draws from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds to combine key writings that have defined the field with more recent contributions in emerging areas of network research.

Volume I introduces networks as a distinctive governance structure. The collection explores critical antecedents and social exchange conditions of networks such as trust, reputation, power, and cohesion and also examines the vulnerability of networks. Volume II features pivotal network processes and dynamics such as access, learning and innovation, mobilization and recombination, and diffusion. The collection covers the spectrum of various network forms and elucidates the key features of regional, informal, business and project networks.

These insightful volumes will be an essential source of reference for students and researchers alike.

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Edited by Gernot Grabher, HafenCity University, Germany and Walter W. Powell, Professor of Education, Organizational Behavior and Sociology, Stanford University, US

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843760355
• ISBN 13: 9781843760351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1344
• Editor: Grabher Gernot, Powell Walter W.