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xvi, 544 p. ill. 25 cm. Introduction : 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. Information 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. Small-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. edited by Nitin Nohria and Robert G. Eccles. Papers originally presented at a conference held in August 1990, sponsored by Harvard Business School. Includes bibliographical references and index. Social networks Congresses Organizational behavior Congresses HD58.7 .N47 1992 302.3/5 0875843247 (acid free paper) 92011442 DLC 920306 20210221062718.0 129327