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  • Strong Bridges

    Trust Beyond Structure

    by Ronald S. Burt, Sonja Opper ...
    Series series Social Network Mechanisms
    Strong Bridges is a book about a contradiction and the opportunity it offers. For decades, social network theory has drawn its maps of advantage from the idea that brokers sit astride structural holes, reaping value from weak ties that bridge disconnected worlds. But what if some of those bridges are not weak? What if the real advantage lies not just in structure, but in trust forged in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Capitalism from Below

    Markets and Institutional Change in China

    by Victor Nee, Sonja Opper ...
    More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private enterprise overcome ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

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  • Understanding Social Networks

    Theories, Concepts, and Findings

    by Charles Kadushin ...
    Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. Understanding Social Networks fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that underlie the social network phenomenon. Written for those interested in this fast moving area but who ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."― Zelizer Best Book in Economic ... Read more

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  • Management, Leadership and Operations

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    This book provides a one-of-a-kind comprehensive comparative survey of management, leadership and operational practices and research covering countries from all over the world, both developed and developing. Countries and regions included in the survey include the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Nordic Europe, Israel, Israel, China, India, Vietnam, Mexico, ... Read more

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  • Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Quantification in Global Public Policy

    by Justyna Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek, Marlee Tichenor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and ... Read more

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  • Playing Our Game : Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten The West

    by Edward S. Steinfeld ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Re-Imagining Capitalism

    Edited by Dominic Barton, Matthias Kipping, Dezsö Horváth ...
    Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly under question: Is capitalism still improving wealth and well-being for the many? Or, is long-term value creation being ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Brokerage and Closure

    An Introduction to Social Capital

    by Ronald S. Burt ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations, and careers become more and more dependent on informal, discretionary relationships. The formal organization deals with accountability; Everything else flows through the informal: ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Global Auction

    The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

    by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, David Ashton ...
    For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Neighbor Networks

    Competitive Advantage Local and Personal

    by Ronald S. Burt ...
    There is a moral to this book, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing." This advice is contrary to the usual social network emphasis on securing relations with well-connected people. Neighbor Networks examines the cases of analysts, bankers, and managers, and finds that rewards, in fact, do go to people with ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The World that Changes the World

    How Philanthropy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship are Transforming the Social Ecosystem

    Edited by Willie Cheng, Sharifah Mohamed ...
    If there is an X PRIZE for collaborative thought leadership of the social ecosystem, this book would get it.Dr. Peter H. DiamandisChairman and CEO, X PRIZE FoundationThe World that Changes the World is thought leadership at its best—envisioning the future through reflection and analysis of past trends and contemporary challenges.Senator the Hon. Ursula StephensAustralian Parliamentary Secretary ... Read more

    $40.00 USD