Making Sense of Chaos

Socio-technical Networks, Careers and Entrepreneurs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2302883
AutoresArni Sverrisson (Research Policy Institute, University of Lund, Sweden), Árni Sverrisson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen37
Número4
Páginas401-417
Fecha de publicación1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000169939403700407
OpenAlexW2004077524
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas28

A number of problems are explored which arise when social network theory, and particularly the concept of structural equivalence, is used to analyze technological change Field studies in two Afncan towns provide empincal illustrations. First, production processes and mechanization are discussed. Network flexibility and mobility within networks are considered next. The article then moves on to strategies available to proprietors of enterprises. Lastly, conceptual problems arising in the discussion are summanzed and related to an analysis of entrepreneurship. The article argues throughout for a network concept based on interrelations between positions and analysis in terms of the structural equivalence of such positions in a number of intersecting 'one-dimensional' networks

Dynamic network analysis · Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · Equivalence (formal languages · Field (mathematics · Flexibility (engineering · Management · Management science · Neoclassical economics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Management and Organizational Studies · Mathematics