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Between hierarchies and markets : the logic and limits of network forms of organization /

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Grahame Thompson explores the ways in which the word network has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular he offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been used to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organization especially in the business sector and the marke...

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Main Author: Thompson, Grahame
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Organizational behavior.
Business networks.
Social networks.
Social Support
Comportement organisationnel.
Réseaux d'affaires.
Réseaux sociaux.
Business networks
Organizational behavior
Social networks
Organisation
Politische Ökonomie
Unternehmen
Soziales Netzwerk
Netzwerk
Netwerken.
Sociaal-economische aspecten.
Organisatiestructuur.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Considering Networks: A Methodological Introduction
  • pt. I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues
  • 2. Hierarchies, Markets, and Networks: A Preliminary Comparison
  • 3. Social Network Analysis, Transaction-Cost Analysis, and Actor-Network Theory: Three Approaches to Networks
  • 4. Networks and the Issues of 'Excess', the 'Gift', 'Non-exchange', and 'Trust'
  • pt. 2. Applications and Empirical Comparisons
  • 5. Industrial Organization as Networks
  • 6. Political Networks and the Politics of Network Governance
  • 7. Networks and the International System
  • 8. Conclusions.