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Brokerage and Closure

An introduction to social capital

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Jacqueline von Tesmar
@jacqvon · Community, Product Hunt ✌️😻
Almost everything that happens in a firm flows through informal networks builts by advice, coordination, cooperation, friendship, gossip, knowledge, and trust. In this book, Ron Burt builds upon his celebrated work on network analyses to explain how these informal networks functions and the role of network entrepreneurs who have amassed social capital. Burt … See more
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Moss Pike
@mosspike · Director of EdTech at Vistamar School
Burt convincingly shows how the process of brokerage across structural holes (i.e., connecting new dots) in networks combines with closure to influence social capital within the network. In particular, he argues that brokerage is the most valuable strategy for innovation and that brokerage correlates well with influence, among other things. It's his second b… See more