Brokerage and closure : an introduction to social capital / Ronald S. Burt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burt, Ronald S., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition.

Business networks.

Social capital (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume the author explains how the elements of brokerage and closure work together to define social capital, showing how in the business world reputation has replaced authority and reward has become associated with achieving competitive advantage in a social order of continuous disequilibrium.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Figures; Tables; Introduction; 1. The Social Capital of Structural Holes; 2. Creativity and Learning; 3. Closure, Trust, and Reputation; 4. Closure, Echo, and Rigidity; 5. Images of Equilibrium; References; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-275) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9781383038798

1383038791

9781280904783

128090478X

9780191530340

0191530344

9781435607064

1435607066

OCLC:

476257794

Publisher Number:

9780199249145