Summary
Contents
Subject index
Awards:
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
Social network analysis has been one of the fastest growing and most influential areas of recent times. Why has this happened? What are the key features of social network analysis?
This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods, and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are: Network theory; Interdisciplinary applications; Online networks; Corporate networks; Lobbying networks; Deviant networks; Measuring devices; Key Methodologies; Software applications
The result is a peerless resource for teachers and students. It offers a critical survey of the origins, basic issues and major debates. Instead of consulting a variety of books and journal articles, the Handbook offers a one-stop guide that will be used by readers for decades to come.
Political Dimensions of Corporate Connections
Political Dimensions of Corporate Connections
Introduction
Social network analysis (SNA) is (1) a method for analysing the volume and patterns of social relations linking individual actors to each other and (2) a way of theorising social structure and its effects on behaviour. The analysis of corporate political activity, on the other hand, is part of the empirical examination of business politics. They are distinct intellectual endeavours; however, their paths have often crossed and led to mutually beneficial partnerships. Social network analysts have an opportunity to test the utility of their measures and theoretical predispositions in a substantive field of empirical research. Scholars of business politics have relied on SNA for a set of tools suited to the task of operationalising ...
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