Between Hierarchies and Markets

The Logic and Limits of Network Forms of Organization
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-877526-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

This text conducts a survey into the ways in which the word "network" has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular, it offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been used to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organization.

This text conducts a survey into the ways in which the word "network" has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular, it offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been used to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organ

1. Considering Networks: A Methodological Introduction; PART I: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; 2. Hierarchies, Markets, and Networks: A Preliminary Comparison; 3. Social Network Analysis, Transaction Cost Analysis, Actor-Network Theory: Three Approaches to Networks; 4. Networks and the Issues of 'Excess', the 'Gift', 'Non-Exchange', and 'Trust'; PART II: APPLICATIONS AND EMPIRICAL COMPARISONS; 5. Industrial Organization as Networks; 6. Political Networks and the Politics of Network Governance; 7. Networks and the International System; 8. Conclusion

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Grahame

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Grahame F. Thompson is Professor of Political Economy and Head of the Department of Government and Politics at the Open University. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Grifith University, UNAM Mexico, and Curtin University. He is the co-author of Globalization in Question (with Paul Hirst, 1999) and editor of Governing the European Economy (2001).