Structural Holes The Social Structure of Competition

Name: Structural Holes The Social Structure of Competition
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ISBN: 9780674843714

ISBN-10: 0674843711

ISBN-13: 9780674843714

Edition: 1992

Authors: Ronald S. Burt

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Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information. When the two are connected through a third individual as entrepreneur, the gap is filled, creating important advantages for the entrepreneur. Competitive advantage is a matter of access to structural holes in relation to market transactions.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/11/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Social Structure of Competition


Opportunity and Capital


Information


Structural Holes


Control and the Tertius Gaudens


Entrepreneurs


Secondary Holes


Structural Autonomy


Summary



Formalizing the Argument


Network Data


Redundancy


Constraint


Hole Signature


Structural Autonomy


Summary



Turning a Profit


Product Networks and Market Profit


The Study Population


Hole Effects


Market Hole Signatures


Summary


Appendix: Weighing Alternatives



Getting Ahead


Contact Networks and Manager Achievement


The Study Population


Hole Effects


Hierarchy


Institutional Holes


Selecting a Network


Summary



Weighing Alternatives



Causal Order



Player-Structure Duality


Structural Unit of Analysis


Players and Structures


Escape from Attributes


No Escape


Summary



Commit and Survive


Holes and Heterogeneity


Interface and the Commit Hypothesis


Population Ecology and the Survival Hypothesis


Summary



Strategic Embedding and Institutional Residue


The Other Tertius


Strategy Hypothesis


Formal Organization as Social Residue


Personality as Emotional Residue


Summary Notes


References


Index