• Contents ; Contributors ; Introduction ; PART I ; SOCIAL NETWORKS AS IMPORTANT INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASSETS ; 1. The Social Structure of Competition ; 2. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital ; 3. The Strength of Strong Ties: The Importance of Philos in Organizations ; PART II ; SOCIAL NETWORK IMPLICATIONS FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND SHARING ; 4. The Strength of Weak Ties ; 5. Diffusion Networks ; 6. Designs for Working: Why Your Bosses Want to Turn Your New Office into Greenwich Village ; 7. Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg: She's a Grandmother, She Lives in a Big House in Chicago, and You've Never Heard of Her. Does She Run the World? ; 8. Knowing What We Know: Supporting Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Social Networks ; PART III ; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN ORGANIZATIONS ; 9. Informal Networks: The Company behind the Chart ; 10. The People Who Make Organizations Go-or Stop ; 11. Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network Analysis to Support Strategic Collaboration ; 12. A Social Network Perspective on Human Resources Management ; 13. Constraints on the Interactive Organization as an Ideal Type ; INDEX

The book is a well-conceived and executed discussion of social networking from an organizational perspective. The editors chose previously published articles as their threads, then proceeded to weave a vibrant and well designed tapestry that gives readers a sense of theoretic richness accompanied by a fine-grained definition achieved through their selection of empirically based studies." -Academy of Management Executive.