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Networks (Hardcover)
Gernot Grabher, Walter W. Powell
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R18,122
Discovery Miles 181 220
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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.
This book is about change in Central and Eastern Europe, and about
how we think about social and economic change more generally. In
contrast to the dominant 'transition framework' that examines
organizational forms in Eastern Europe according to the degree to
which they conform to, or depart from, the blueprints of already
existing capitalist systems, this book examines the innovative
character, born of necessity, in which actors in the post-socialist
setting are restructuring organizations and institutions by
redefining and recombining resources. Instead of thinking of these
recombinations as accidental aberrations, the book explores their
evolutionary potentials.
The starting premise of Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialist
Societies is that the actual unit of entrepreneurship is not the
isolated individual personality but the social network that links
firms and the actors within them. Drawing insight from evolutionary
economics and from the new methods of network analysis, leading
sociologists, economists, and political scientists report on
changes in organizational forms in Hungary, Poland, Eastern
Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
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