Author: Cross, Rob; Parker, Andrew; & Sasson, Lisa; editors:
Title: Networks in the Knowledge Economy
Description: Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, (2003). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xi,349 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 13 papers concerning Social Networks as Important Individual & Organizational Assets; Social Network Implications for Knowledge Creation &Sharing; Managerial Implications of Social Networks in Organizations. Includes: R. Burt "The Social Structure of Competition"; J.S. Coleman " Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital"; D. Krackhardt "The Strength of Strong Ties: The Importance of Philos in Organizations"; M.S. Granovetter "The Strength of Weakies"; E. Rogers "Diffusion Networks"; M. Gladwell "Designing for Working: Why Your Bosses Want To Turn Your New Office into Greenwich Village"; M. Gladwell "Six Degrees of Lois Weinberg: She's a Grandmother, She Lives in a Big House in Chicago, and You've Never Heard of Her. Does She Run the World?"; R. Cross,et al: "Knowing What We Know: Supporting Knowledge Creation & Sharing in Social Networks"; D. Knackhardt & J.R. Hanson "Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart";R. Cross & L. Prusak "The People Who Make Organizaitons Go - or Stop"; R. Cross, et al: "Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network Analysis to Support Strategic Collaboration"; D.J. Brass "A Social Network Perspective on Human Resources Management"; D. Knackhardt "Constraints on the Interactive Organization as an Ideal Type

Keywords: Organizational Sociology, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Management, Organization, Organizations, , ,