J Bruggeman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4075 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Bruggeman |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Bruggeman |
| FIRMA | BRUGGEMAN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0422-1842 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Social networks for health communication in rural Uganda
To reach the most vulnerable individuals in under-resourced countries, health communication interventions increasingly move towards the community level. However, little is known about how health information spreads through local social networks. This paper maps the health information network of a rural trading centre in Uganda. As part of a five-year ethnographic study of sustainable community health resources, ego networks were obtained for 231 …
Spontaneous cooperation for public goods
Cooperation for public goods poses a dilemma, where individuals are tempted to free ride on others’ contributions. Classic solutions involve monitoring, reputation maintenance and costly incentives, but there are important collective actions based on simple and cheap cues only, for example, unplanned protests and revolts. This can be explained by an Ising model with the assumption that individuals in uncertain situations tend to conform to the lo…
Consensus, cohesion and connectivity
Dissecting discursive contention
The Strength of Varying Tie Strength
Deceit and Self‐Deception
Detecting Communities through Network Data
Social life coalesces into communities through cooperation and conflict. As a case in point, Shwed and Bearman (2010) studied consensus and contention in scientific communities. They used a sophisticated modularity method to detect communities on the basis of scientific citations, which they then interpreted as directed positive network ties. They assumed that a lack of citations implies disagreement. Some scientific citations, however, are conte…
Knowledge Specialization, Knowledge Brokerage and the Uneven Growth of Technology Domains
Why do certain domains of knowledge grow fast while others grow slowly or stagnate? Two distinct theoretical arguments hold that knowledge growth is enhanced by knowledge specialization and knowledge brokerage. Based on the notion of recombinant knowledge growth, we show that specialization and brokerage are opposing modes of knowledge generation, the difference between them lying in the extent to which homogeneous vs. heterogeneous input ideas g…
The institutional embeddedness of social capital
This study contributes to earlier studies aimed at the question of whether the welfare state crowds out social capital or not by examining to what extent the welfare state affects the value of social capital . This article investigates the effects of three sources of social capital on occupational prestige and tests whether these effects are moderated by welfare state effort in terms of social spending. Multi-level analyses based on European Soci…
The Cricket and the Ant
Organizations face trade-offs when they adopt strategies in changing resource environments. The type of trade-off depends on the type of resource change. This paper offers an organizational trade-off model for quantitative resource changes. We call it the “Cricket and Ant” (CA) model, because the pertaining strategies resemble the cricket and ant's behavior in La Fontaine's famous fable. We derive theorems in this CA model in First Order Logic, w…
Networks embedded in n-dimensional space
A note on structural holes theory and niche overlap
Bounded Rationality at Large
In industries characterized by several technological standards, each with positive network externalities, competition is different from industries with technologically “loosely coupled” organizations. We therefore expected that in airwaves auctions for mobile telephony in the U.S., network externalities would show up in firms' bidding. They did, although most firms were penny-wise but pound-foolish
A Logical Toolkit for Theory (Re) Construction
The social sciences have achieved highly sophisticated methods for data collection and analysis, leading to increased control and tractability of scientific results. Meanwhile, methods for systematizing these results, as well as new ideas and hypotheses, into sociological theories have seen little progress, leaving most sociological arguments ambiguous and difficult to handle, and impairing cumulative theory development. Sociological theory, cont…
The Demography of Corporations and Industries
Niche width theory reappraised
Niche width theory is a part of organizational ecology, which predicts for given environmental conditions whether specialist or generalist organizations will do better. These predictions are based on a mathematical model, but the model itself does not match the verbal argument, which in turn is ambiguous. In an attempt to improve the theory, I formalize it into logic. As a result, implicit information becomes explicit, explanatory support for the…
A Logical Approach to Formalizing Organizational Ecology
A Logical Approach to Formalizing Organizational Ecology
Detecting Communities through Network Data
Social life coalesces into communities through cooperation and conflict. As a case in point, Shwed and Bearman (2010) studied consensus and contention in scientific communities. They used a sophisticated modularity method to detect communities on the basis of scientific citations, which they then interpreted as directed positive network ties. They assumed that a lack of citations implies disagreement. Some scientific citations, however, are conte…
Knowledge Specialization, Knowledge Brokerage and the Uneven Growth of Technology Domains
Why do certain domains of knowledge grow fast while others grow slowly or stagnate? Two distinct theoretical arguments hold that knowledge growth is enhanced by knowledge specialization and knowledge brokerage. Based on the notion of recombinant knowledge growth, we show that specialization and brokerage are opposing modes of knowledge generation, the difference between them lying in the extent to which homogeneous vs. heterogeneous input ideas g…
Niche width theory reappraised
Niche width theory is a part of organizational ecology, which predicts for given environmental conditions whether specialist or generalist organizations will do better. These predictions are based on a mathematical model, but the model itself does not match the verbal argument, which in turn is ambiguous. In an attempt to improve the theory, I formalize it into logic. As a result, implicit information becomes explicit, explanatory support for the…
The Strength of Varying Tie Strength
Deceit and Self‐Deception
The institutional embeddedness of social capital
This study contributes to earlier studies aimed at the question of whether the welfare state crowds out social capital or not by examining to what extent the welfare state affects the value of social capital . This article investigates the effects of three sources of social capital on occupational prestige and tests whether these effects are moderated by welfare state effort in terms of social spending. Multi-level analyses based on European Soci…
A Logical Toolkit for Theory (Re) Construction
The social sciences have achieved highly sophisticated methods for data collection and analysis, leading to increased control and tractability of scientific results. Meanwhile, methods for systematizing these results, as well as new ideas and hypotheses, into sociological theories have seen little progress, leaving most sociological arguments ambiguous and difficult to handle, and impairing cumulative theory development. Sociological theory, cont…
Spontaneous cooperation for public goods
Cooperation for public goods poses a dilemma, where individuals are tempted to free ride on others’ contributions. Classic solutions involve monitoring, reputation maintenance and costly incentives, but there are important collective actions based on simple and cheap cues only, for example, unplanned protests and revolts. This can be explained by an Ising model with the assumption that individuals in uncertain situations tend to conform to the lo…
Consensus, cohesion and connectivity
A Logical Approach to Formalizing Organizational Ecology
Niche width theory reappraised
Niche width theory is a part of organizational ecology, which predicts for given environmental conditions whether specialist or generalist organizations will do better. These predictions are based on a mathematical model, but the model itself does not match the verbal argument, which in turn is ambiguous. In an attempt to improve the theory, I formalize it into logic. As a result, implicit information becomes explicit, explanatory support for the…
The Demography of Corporations and Industries
A Logical Toolkit for Theory (Re) Construction
The social sciences have achieved highly sophisticated methods for data collection and analysis, leading to increased control and tractability of scientific results. Meanwhile, methods for systematizing these results, as well as new ideas and hypotheses, into sociological theories have seen little progress, leaving most sociological arguments ambiguous and difficult to handle, and impairing cumulative theory development. Sociological theory, cont…
A note on structural holes theory and niche overlap
Bounded Rationality at Large
In industries characterized by several technological standards, each with positive network externalities, competition is different from industries with technologically “loosely coupled” organizations. We therefore expected that in airwaves auctions for mobile telephony in the U.S., network externalities would show up in firms' bidding. They did, although most firms were penny-wise but pound-foolish
Networks embedded in n-dimensional space
The Cricket and the Ant
Organizations face trade-offs when they adopt strategies in changing resource environments. The type of trade-off depends on the type of resource change. This paper offers an organizational trade-off model for quantitative resource changes. We call it the “Cricket and Ant” (CA) model, because the pertaining strategies resemble the cricket and ant's behavior in La Fontaine's famous fable. We derive theorems in this CA model in First Order Logic, w…
The institutional embeddedness of social capital
This study contributes to earlier studies aimed at the question of whether the welfare state crowds out social capital or not by examining to what extent the welfare state affects the value of social capital . This article investigates the effects of three sources of social capital on occupational prestige and tests whether these effects are moderated by welfare state effort in terms of social spending. Multi-level analyses based on European Soci…
Knowledge Specialization, Knowledge Brokerage and the Uneven Growth of Technology Domains
Why do certain domains of knowledge grow fast while others grow slowly or stagnate? Two distinct theoretical arguments hold that knowledge growth is enhanced by knowledge specialization and knowledge brokerage. Based on the notion of recombinant knowledge growth, we show that specialization and brokerage are opposing modes of knowledge generation, the difference between them lying in the extent to which homogeneous vs. heterogeneous input ideas g…
Detecting Communities through Network Data
Social life coalesces into communities through cooperation and conflict. As a case in point, Shwed and Bearman (2010) studied consensus and contention in scientific communities. They used a sophisticated modularity method to detect communities on the basis of scientific citations, which they then interpreted as directed positive network ties. They assumed that a lack of citations implies disagreement. Some scientific citations, however, are conte…
Deceit and Self‐Deception
Dissecting discursive contention
The Strength of Varying Tie Strength
Consensus, cohesion and connectivity
Social networks for health communication in rural Uganda
To reach the most vulnerable individuals in under-resourced countries, health communication interventions increasingly move towards the community level. However, little is known about how health information spreads through local social networks. This paper maps the health information network of a rural trading centre in Uganda. As part of a five-year ethnographic study of sustainable community health resources, ego networks were obtained for 231 …
Spontaneous cooperation for public goods
Cooperation for public goods poses a dilemma, where individuals are tempted to free ride on others’ contributions. Classic solutions involve monitoring, reputation maintenance and costly incentives, but there are important collective actions based on simple and cheap cues only, for example, unplanned protests and revolts. This can be explained by an Ising model with the assumption that individuals in uncertain situations tend to conform to the lo…
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