Structural holes : the social structure of competition

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Structural holes : the social structure of competition

Ronald S. Burt

Harvard University Press, 1992

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780674843714

内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF COMPETITION Opportunity and Capital Information Structural Holes Control and the Tertius Gaudens Entrepreneurs Secondary Holes Structural Autonomy Summary 2. FORMALIZING THE ARGUMENT Network Data Redundancy Constraint Hole Signature Structural Autonomy Summary 3. TURNING A PROFIT Product Networks and Market Profit The Study Population Hole Effects Market Hole Signatures Summary Appendix: Weighing Alternatives 4. GETTING AHEAD Contact Networks and Manager Achievement The Study Population Hole Effects Hierarchy Institutional Holes Selecting a Network Summary Appendix A: Weighing Alternatives Appendix B: Causal Order 5. PLAYER-STRUCTURE DUALITY Structural Unit of Analysis Players and Structures Escape from Attributes No Escape Summary 6. COMMIT AND SURVIVE Holes and Heterogeneity Interface and the Commit Hypothesis Population Ecology and the Survival Hypothesis Summary 7. STRATEGIC EMBEDDING AND INSTITUTIONAL RESIDUE The Other Tertius Strategy Hypothesis Formal Organization as Social Residue Personality as Emotional Residue Summary Notes References Index
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: cloth ISBN 9780674843721

内容説明

This work describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed from the 1970s to the 1990s. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network image of competition more closely keyed to the actual settings in which people live and work. The theory describes how the network structure of a situation offers competitive advantage to certain players. The basic element in this description 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. The distribution of structural holes in a competitive arena determines the flow of information and control benefits to certain players. Competitive advantage is a matter of access to structural holes. The author shows how the distribution of structural holes around market transactions in the American economy gives certain producers an advantage in negotiating price, which translates into higher producer profit margins. He also examines how the distribution of structural holes in the contact networks of senior managers in one of America's leading high-technology firms determines the speed with which managers are promoted past one another. Burt also shows how the structural hole argument can add value to other theories, including the interface theory of markets, the strength of weak ties argument, resource dependence and transaction cost theories of the firm, population ecology theories of organization, and interpersonal theories of personality. The book should be of interest to sociologists, economists, and business strategists.

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