Networks and Institutionalization: A Neo-structural Approach.
This paper is the text prepared for the keynote address of the EUSN 2017 conference in Mainz, Germany. A short presentation of concepts reflects in part the foundations of neostructural sociology (NSS) and its use of social and organisational network analyses, combined with other methodologies, to b...
| Publicado en: | Connections (02261766) Vol. 37; no. 1/2; pp. 7 - 23 |
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2017
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