Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in
business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key …

This paper looks at the difficulty in map** covert networks. Analyzing networks after an
event is fairly easy for prosecution purposes. Map** covert networks to prevent criminal …

It is widely believed that the demands of living in large, complexly bonded social groups
played a key role in the evolution of human cognition. This review focuses on a critical but …

Addresses a phenomenon that has been much studied in anthropology, sociology, and
administrative science—the social structural foundations of coordinated activity and …

Network analysts interested in social influence examine the social foundations for influence—
the social relations that provide a basis for the alteration of an attitude or behavior by one …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks.
We develop a taxonomy of “macro” and “micro” characteristics of social-interaction networks …

This paper considers incentives to provide goods that are non-excludable along social or
geographic links. We find, first, that networks can lead to specialization in public good …

In this paper, we introduce performance feedback models to specify conditions under which
organizations' decision makers are more (or less) likely to accept the risk and uncertainty of …

We address the question of how participants in a small world experiment are able to find
short paths in a social network using only local information about their immediate contacts …

Research on parent involvement has tended to characterize parents as relatively isolated
individuals who interact with their child and their child's teacher. This study acknowledged …