New Developments In The Theory Of Networks

Author : Mika Tuunanen,Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790826159

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New Developments in the Theory of Networks by Mika Tuunanen,Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse Pdf

The theory of networks aims at developing theoretical views on the design and management of alliances, franchise chains, licensing, joint ventures, cooperatives, and venture capital relations. The current trend in economics and management of networks is twofold: First there is a strong tendency toward application of theoretical approaches developed both in organizational economics, strategic management and organization theory. The second trend refers to the development of more integrative views on networks. Especially, combining organizational economics, strategic management and relational views on networks are very promising research directions. Starting from this status of research, the current book emphasizes network research as a theory-driven field by offering new perspectives on contract design, decision and ownership rights, value creation, knowledge management and the role of social capital in franchising networks, alliances and cooperatives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1283080303

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New Developments in the Theory of Networks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robyn Keast,Myrna P Mandell,Robert Agranoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135013257

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Network Theory in the Public Sector by Robyn Keast,Myrna P Mandell,Robert Agranoff Pdf

Networks have been described in terms of metaphors, governance arrangements and structural or institutional arrangements. These different perspectives of networks come out of a variety of disciplines, including political science, public administration, urban affairs, social welfare, public management and organizational/sociological research. This wealth of research, while contributing to a deeper understanding of networks, presents a dilemma which is addressed by this book. That is the question of whether there is a theory of public networks that informs networks in their various forms, and is there a need for a new theory of networks? More importantly, is network research still relevant to practice? Does network theory improve the process of governance? Are different terms and/or approaches actually the same or different? What do these different approaches mean to theory? This book deeply explores and integrates existing network theory and related theories from a number of perspectives, levels and jurisdictions to develop a framework to guide network design, governance and management. The book focuses on the important issue of network performance, looking at networks as bounded and consciously arranged; the actors who participate in them design the relationships among a bounded set of individual organizations to purse common objectives. Finally, the chapters tease out the variety of governance modes or regimes that intersect with network governance. This book offers a comprehensive, integrative, interdisciplinary approach that enables specialists, practitioners and administrators across a wide array of interests and fields to formulate and work on problems using a common language, analytical framework and theoretical basis.

Author : Thomas Ehrmann,Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790828672

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Network Governance by Thomas Ehrmann,Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse Pdf

The current book on Nework Governance contributes to the literature by offering new perspectives on network goals and performance, inter-organizational learning and trust in alliances, corporate governance issues in cooperatives, governance of cross-border retail networks, contract design and governance innovations in cooperatives and fanchising.

Author : Jacek Szmatka,John Skvoretz,Joseph Berger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804728445

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Status, Network, and Structure by Jacek Szmatka,John Skvoretz,Joseph Berger Pdf

This book challenges much that has been written about the decline of sociology as a vital, essential area of inquiry into the human condition. Against this Greek chorus of woe, these papers show by example that sociology can make progress, select significant problems, and cumulate an integrated and coherent set of findings and theoretical understandings. Although the twenty papers in the book engage a wide variety of issues, they are united by their adherence to one of the most active and successful traditions in sociology, the group process tradition. Group process research programs can examine tractable problems posed by social psychological phenomena for which sociology has the best methods of study; they have the potential for a hardware-based, technological research front that discovers new phenomena; and they come closest of all approaches in sociological research to using cognitive criteria in the choice of problems and to studying immutable phenomena. The overall aim of the book is to provide models for researchers struggling to develop, construct, and integrate coherent sociological theory and knowledge. The papers are grouped around three themes: (1) the problem of theory construction in sociology, including what is meant by "theory” and the methods of testing it, particularly empirical testing; (2) the extension and elaboration of existing theories of group processes, notably in the study of status, sentiment, and the comparison process; and (3) the theoretical issues at the intersection of social structures, the pattern of connection in social networks, and the process of rational choice.

Author : S. R. Deards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:867386575

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Recent Developments in Network Theory by S. R. Deards Pdf

Author : Mackaay, Ejan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788118262

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Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems by Mackaay, Ejan Pdf

This second edition of Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems substantially updates a unique work that presents the core ideas of law and economics for audiences primarily familiar with civil law systems.

Author : Paolo M. Soardi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540487982

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Potential Theory on Infinite Networks by Paolo M. Soardi Pdf

The aim of the book is to give a unified approach to new developments in discrete potential theory and infinite network theory. The author confines himself to the finite energy case, but this does not result in loss of complexity. On the contrary, the functional analytic machinery may be used in analogy with potential theory on Riemann manifolds. The book is intended for researchers with interdisciplinary interests in one of the following fields: Markov chains, combinatorial graph theory, network theory, Dirichlet spaces, potential theory, abstract harmonic analysis, theory of boundaries.

Author : Josef Wieland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031507182

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Cooperation in Value-Creating Networks by Josef Wieland Pdf

Author : Peter R. Monge,Noshir Contractor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198036371

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Theories of Communication Networks by Peter R. Monge,Noshir Contractor Pdf

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications. Second, it explores single levels of analysis rather than the multiple levels out of which most networks are comprised. Third, network analysis has employed very little the insights from contemporary complex systems analysis and computer simulations. Foruth, it typically uses descriptive rather than inferential statistics, thus robbing it of the ability to make claims about the larger universe of networks. Finally, almost all the research is static and cross-sectional rather than dynamic. Theories of Communication Networks presents solutions to all five problems. The authors develop a multitheoretical model that relates different social science theories with different network properties. This model is multilevel, providing a network decomposition that applies the various social theories to all network levels: individuals, dyads, triples, groups, and the entire network. The book then establishes a model from the perspective of complex adaptive systems and demonstrates how to use Blanche, an agent-based network computer simulation environment, to generate and test network theories and hypotheses. It presents recent developments in network statistical analysis, the p* family, which provides a basis for valid multilevel statistical inferences regarding networks. Finally, it shows how to relate communication networks to other networks, thus providing the basis in conjunction with computer simulations to study the emergence of dynamic organizational networks.

Author : Petter Holme,Jari Saramäki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031303999

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Temporal Network Theory by Petter Holme,Jari Saramäki Pdf

This book focuses on the theoretical side of temporal network research and gives an overview of the state of the art in the field. Curated by two pioneers in the field who have helped to shape it, the book contains contributions from many leading researchers. Temporal networks fill the border area between network science and time-series analysis and are relevant for epidemic modeling, optimization of transportation and logistics, as well as understanding biological phenomena. Over the past 20 years, network theory has proven to be one of the most powerful tools for studying and analyzing complex systems. Temporal network theory is perhaps the most recent significant development in the field in recent years, with direct applications to many of the “big data” sets. This book appeals to students, researchers, and professionals interested in theory and temporal networks—a field that has grown tremendously over the last decade. This second edition of Temporal Network Theory extends the first with three chapters highlighting recent developments in the interface with machine learning.

Author : S. R. Deards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:847101238

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Recent Developments in Network Theory by S. R. Deards Pdf

Author : Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319101842

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Interfirm Networks by Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse Pdf

The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.

Author : Sven Erik Jørgensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401126823

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Integration of Ecosystem Theories: A Pattern by Sven Erik Jørgensen Pdf

Ecosystems are still a puzzle for mankind. We would like to be able to know their reactions and control them, but repeatedly we have been surprised by their unexpected reactions to our somewhat hasty actions. We unfortunately have to admit that our present knowledge about ecosystems and their true nature is rather limited. Many excellent contributions to a more profound understanding of ecosystems have been launched during the last two decades, but if you do not know the field, it looks as if all the presented ecosystem theories are in complete discord with each other. However, ecosystems are extremely complex and only a pluralistic view will be able to reveal their basic properties. The different approaches therefore have much in common, when you go deeper into the core material, than the first superficial more glance will be able to tell and there is therefore a natural need for a unification of the various approaches to ecosystem theories. It has for many years been my desire to attempt to make a unification of the many excellent thoughts, ideas and observations about ecosystems, that scientists have contributed. These thoughts, ideas and hypotheses have not been made in vain.

Author : Horst Hanusch,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847207012

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Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics by Horst Hanusch,Andreas Pyka Pdf

The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics is a cutting-edge collection of specially commissioned contributions highlighting not only the broad scope but also the common ground between all branches of this prolific and fast developing field of economics. For 25 years economists have been investigating industrial dynamics under the heading of neo-Schumpeterian economics, which has itself become a mature and widely acknowledged discipline in the fields of innovation, knowledge, growth and development economics. The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics surveys the achievements of the most visible scholars in this area. The contributions to the Companion give both a brief survey on the various fields of neo-Schumpeterian economics as well as insights into recent research at the scientific frontiers. The book also illustrates the potential of neo-Schumpeterian economics to overcome its so far self-imposed restriction to the domains of technology driven industry dynamics, and to become a comprehensive approach in economics suited for the analysis of development processes in all economic domains. Integrating both the public sector and financial markets, the book focusses on the co-evolutionary processes between the different domains. As a roadmap for the development of a comprehensive neo-Schumpeterian theory, the Companion will be an invaluable source of reference for researchers in the fields of industrial dynamics and economic growth, and academics and scholars of economics generally. PhD students will find the Companion an indispensable general introduction to the field of neo-Schumpeterian economics. It will also appeal to politicians and consultants engaged in national and international policy as the Companion deals with the highly important and ever topical phenomena of economic development.