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A structural hole is a gap between | network clusters (or even between two people) that would benefit from having the gap closed. |
Social capital | The information, knowledge of people or ideas, and connections that help individuals enter preexisting networks or gain power in them. |
High amounts of social capital in a community generally means | that the community is tightly knit and can come together to face challenges and make improvements. |
Network analysis researchers use the basic concepts about groups and social networks that we have discussed | to investigate how group life shapes individual behavior. |
An organization is any social network that is defined by a common purpose and has | a boundary between its membership and the rest of the social world. |
Organizational culture refers to | the shared beliefs and behaviors within a social group |
Organizational structure refers to the ways in which | power and authority are distributed within an organization. |
Institutional isomorphism refers to | a constraining process that forces one organization to resemble other organizations that face the same set of environmental conditions. |
Wikipedia and Linux are two examples of | open-source platforms. |
Dyads are the foundation of all | social relationships. |