Networks in Social Policy Problems (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vedres, Balazs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Network science is the key to managing social communities, designing the structure of efficient organizations and planning for sustainable development. This book applies network science to contemporary social policy problems. In the first part, tools of diffusion and team design are deployed to challenges in adoption of ideas and the management of creativity. Ideas, unlike information, are generated and adopted in networks of personal ties. Chapters in the second part tackle problems of power and malfeasance in political and business organizations, where mechanisms in accessing and controlling informal networks often outweigh formal processes. The third part uses ideas from biology and physics to understand global economic and financial crises, ecological depletion and challenges to energy security. Ideal for researchers and policy makers involved in social network analysis, business strategy and economic policy, it deals with issues ranging from what makes public advisories effective to how networks influence excessive executive compensation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139564212
• Artikelnr.: 37877737

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction M. Scotti and B. Vedres; Part I. Information,
Collaboration, Innovation: The Creative Power of Networks: 2. Dissemination
of health information within social networks C. Dhanjal, S. Blanchemanche,
S. Clemençon, A. Rona-Tas and F. Rossi; 3. Scientific teams and networks
change the face of knowledge creation S. Wuchty, J. Spiro, B. F. Jones and
B. Uzzi; 4. Structural folds: the innovative potential of overlapping
groups B. Vedres and D. Stark; 5. Team formation and performance on
nanoHub: a network selection challenge in scientific communities D.
Margolin, K. Ognyanova, M. Huang, Y. Huang and N. Contractor; Part II.
Influence, Capture, Corruption: Networks Perspectives on Policy
Institutions: 6. Modes of coordination of collective action: what actors in
policy making? M. Diani; 7. Why skewed distributions of pay for executives
is the cause of much grief: puzzles and few answers so far B. Kogut and
J.-S. Yang; 8. Networks of institutional capture: a case of business in the
State apparatus E. Lazega and L. Mounier; 9. The social and institutional
structure of corruption: some typical network configurations of corruption
transactions in Hungary Z. Szántó, I. J. Tóth and S. Varga; Part III.
Crisis, Extinction, World System Change: Network Dynamics on a Large Scale:
10. How creative elements help the recovery of networks after crisis:
lessons from biology A. Mihalik, A. S. Kaposi, I. A. Kovács, T. Nánási, R.
Palotai, Á. Rák, M. S. Szalay-Beko and P. Csermely; 11. Networks and
globalization policies D. R. White; 12. Network science in ecology: the
structure of ecological communities and the biodiversity question A.
Bodini, S. Allesina and C. Bondavalli; 13. Supply security in the European
natural gas pipeline network M. Scotti and B. Vedres; 14. Conclusions and
outlook A.-L. Barabási; Index.