03158nam a2200289Ia 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029010001500070020004000085035002000125040001800145050002200163082001600185245010600201260005700307300003000364500010700394504005100501505085000552505090201402505042102304650004002725650004102765700003302806700002902839129327BIBL20210221062718.0920306s1992    maua     b    101 0 eng    a 92011442   a0875843247 (acid free paper)c39.95  a(OCoLC)25546619  aDLCcDLCdPMC00aHD58.7b.N47 199200a302.3/522000aNetworks and organizationsbstructure, form, and actioncedited by Nitin Nohria and Robert G. Eccles.  aBoston, Mass.bHarvard Business School Presscc1992.  axvi, 544 p.bill.c25 cm.  aPapers originally presented at a conference held in August 1990, sponsored by Harvard Business School.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction : is a network perspective a useful way of studying organizations? / Nitin Nohria -- Problems of explanation in economic sociology / Mark Granovetter -- The social structure of competition / Ronald S. Burt -- Agency as control in formal networks / Harrison C. White -- Nadel's paradox revisited : relational and cultural aspects of organizational structure / Paul DiMaggio -- Doing your job and helping your friends : universalistic norms about obligations to partiuclar others in networks / Carol A. Heimer -- Structural alignments, individual strategies, and managerial action : elements toward a network theory of getting things done / Herminia Ibarra -- Centrality and power in organizations / Daniel J. Brass and Marlene E. Burkhardt -- The strenth of strong ties : the importance of philos in organizations / David Krackhardt.0 aInformation and search in the creation of new business ventures : the case of the 128 Venture Group / Nitin Nohria -- Complementary communication media : a comparison of electronic mail and face-to-face communication in a programming team / James L. McKenney, Michael H. Zack, and Victor S. Doherty -- Face-to-face : making network organizations work / Nitin Nohria and Robert G. Eccles -- Strategic alliances in commercial biotechnology / Stephen R. Barley, John Freeman, and Ralph C. Hybels -- The make-or-cooperate decision in the context of an industry network / Bruce Kogut, Weijan Shan, and Gordon Walker -- Competitive cooperation in biotechnology : learning through networks? / Walter W. Powell and Peter Brantley -- The network organization in theory and practice / Wayne E. Baker -- Fragments of a cognitive theory of technological change and organizational structure / Michael J. Piore.0 aSmall-firm networks / Charles Perrow -- On the limits of a firm-based theory to explain business networks : the Western bias of neoclassical economics / Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G. Hamilton -- The organization of business networks in the United States and Japan / Michael L. Gerlach and James R. Lincoln -- Conclusion : making network research relevant to practice / Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Robert G. Eccles. 0aSocial networksxCongresses.2Local 0aOrganizational behaviorxCongresses.10aNohria, Nitin.d1962-2Local10aEccles, Robert G.2Local