Social Networks

From OBTnotes

• Social Networks of Competitive Dynamics
• Professor Ray Reagans

Contents 1 Articles 1.1 Methods and measures 1.2 Network origins 1.3 Power and power revised 1.4 Brokerage and brokerage revised 1.5 Closure and cooperation 1.6 Status and status signals 1.7 Identity 1.8 Contagion 1.9 Small World Dynamics

Articles

(from the Spring 08 syllabus)

Methods and measures

• Ronald Burt. 1980. Models of network structure. Annual Review of Sociology, 6: 79-141.

Network origins

• Matthew Jackson and Asher Wolinsky. 1996. A strategic model of social and economic networks. Journal of Economic Theory, 71: 44-74. pdf
• Patrick Doreian. 2006. Actor network utilities and network evolution. Social Networks, 28: 137-164. pdf
• Patrick Doreian. 2007. A note on actor network utilities and network evolution. Unpublished manuscript, University of Pittsburgh.
• Ray Reagans. 2005. Preferences, identity, and competition: Predicting tie strength from demographic data. Management Science, 51: 1374-1383. pdf
• Ron Burt. 2007. Closure and stability: Persistent reputation in enduring relatoinships among bankers and analysts. In The Missing Links: Formation and Decay in Economics Networks. edited by James Rauch, Russell Sage Foundation.
• Matthew Jackson. 2007. The study of social networks in economics. In The Missing Links: Formation and Decay in Economics Networks. edited by James Rauch, Russell Sage Foundation.

Power and power revised

• Richard Emerson. 1962. Power-dependence relations. American Sociological Review, 27: 31-41.
• Karen S. Cook, Richard M. Emerson, and Mary R. Gillmore. 1983. The distribution of power in exchange networks: Theory and experimental results. American Journal of Sociology, 89: 275-305.
• Shane R. Thye. 2000. A status value theory of power in exchange relations. American Sociological Review, 65: 407-432.
• Henry A. Walker, Shane R. Thye, Brent Simpson, Michael J. Lovaglia, David Willer, and Barry Markovsky. 2000. Network exchange theory: Recent developments and new directions. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63: 324-337.
• Shane R. Thye, David Willer, and Barry Markovsky. 2006. From status to power: New models at the intersection of two theories. Social Forces, 84: 1471-1495.

Brokerage and brokerage revised

• Ronald S. Burt. 1980. Autonomy in a social topology. American Journal of Sociology, 85: 892-925.
• Ronald S. Burt. 1997. The contingent value of social capital. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42: 339-365.
• Isabel Fernandez-Mateo. 2007. Who pays the price of brokerage? Transferring constraint through price setting in the staffing sector. American Sociological Review, 72: 291-317.
• Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman. 2007. Why Knowledge Does Not Equal Power: The Network Redundancy Trade-Off. Working paper, Carnegie Mellon University.

Closure and cooperation

• Wayne Baker. 1984. The social structure of a national securities market. American Journal of Sociology, 89: 775-811.
• Avner Greif. 1993. Contract enforceability and economic institutions in early trade: The Maghribi traders’ coalition. The American Economic Review, 525-548.
• Robert Gibbons. 2000. Trust in social structures: Hobbes and Coase meet repeated games. In Trust and Society, edited by Karen Cook. Russell Sage Foundation.
• Bryan Routledge and Joachim Amsberg. 2003. Social capital and growth. Journal of Monetary Economics, 50: 167-193.
• Gautam Ahuja. 2000. Collaboration networks, structural holes, and innovation: A longitudinal study. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45: 425-455.

Status and status signals

• Joel Podolny. 1993. A status-based model of competition. American Journal of Sociology, 98: 829-872.
• Beth A. Benjamin and Joel M. Podolny. 1999. Status, Quality, and Social Order in the California Wine Industry. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44: 563-589.
• Roger V. Gould. 2002. The Origins of Status Hierarchies: A Formal Theory and Empirical Test. American Journal of Sociology, 107: 1143-1178.

Identity

• John F. Padgett and Christopher Ansell. 1993. Robust action and the rise of the Medici, 1400-1434. American Journal of Sociology, 98: 1259-1319. (optional)
• Ezra Zuckerman. 1999. The categorical imperative: Securities analysts and the illegitimacy discount. American Journal of Sociology, 104: 1398-1438.
• Ezra Zuckerman. 2004. Structural incoherence and stock market activity. American Sociological Review, 69: 405-432.
• Matthew Bothner, Young-Kyu Kim, and Wonjae Lee. 2007. Primary status, complementary status, and capital acquisition in the U.S. venture capital industry. Working paper, University of Chicago.

Contagion

• David Strang and Nancy Tuma. 1993. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in diffusion. American Journal of Sociology, 99: 614-639.
• Damon J. Phillips and Ezra Zuckerman. 2001. Middle-status conformity: Theoretical restatement and emipirical demonstration in two markets. American Journal of Sociology, 107: 379-429.
• Matthew Bothner. 2003. Competition and influence: The diffusion of the sixth-generation processor in the global computer industry. American Journal of Sociology, 108: 1175-1210.

Small World Dynamics

• Duncan J. Watts. 1999. Networks, Dynamics, and the Small-World Phenomenon. American Journal of Sociology 105: 493-527.
• Duncan. Watts, Peter Dodds, and M. E. J. Newman. 2006. Identity and search in social networks. Science, 296: 1302-1305.
• Brian Uzzi and Jarret Spiro. 2005. Collaboration and creativity: The small world problem. American Journal of Sociology, 111: 447-504.
• Damon Centola and Michael Macy. 2007 “Complex contagion and the weakness of long ties.” American Journal of Sociology, 113: 702-734.