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Chains of Opportunity : System Models of Mobility in Organizations / Harrison C. White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Harrison C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Job vacancies.
- Labor mobility.
- Organization--Mathematical models.
- Organization.
- Organizational sociology.
- Social sciences--Mathematical models.
- Social sciences.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
- Local Subjects:
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
- Job vacancies.
- Labor mobility.
- Organization--Mathematical models.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.): Zahlr. Abb.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Logic of Opportunity
- Part I. Moves by Vacancies in Organizations
- Chapter 2. Markov Models of Vacancy Chains
- Chapter 3. Tracing Vacancy Chains
- Chapter 4. Specifying a Stratified Model
- Chapter 5. Tests over Five Decades
- Chapter 6. Models for Three Organizations Compared
- Part II. Alternate Models
- Chapter 7. Vacancy Models and Systems Evolution
- Chapter 8. Mobility Models with Interaction
- Chapter 9. Single-Flows Models of Mobility
- Part III. Foundations : Duality and Networks
- Chapter 10. Careers, Attributes, and Replacements : Refining the Markov Chain
- Chapter 11. Interaction among Vacancies
- Chapter 12. Localism, Elites, and Tenure Networks
- Chapter 13. Use and Meaning of Vacancy Models
- Glossary of Major Symbols
- Appendix A: Details of Coding Rules and Sources
- Appendix B: Sampling Weights for Chains
- Appendix C. Estimates of Moves
- Notes
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-43720-9
- OCLC:
- 1013938110
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