Between Hierarchies and Markets: The Logic and Limits of Network Forms of Organization

by Grahame Thompson

This book conducts a survey into the ways in which the word 'network' has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular, it offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been used to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organization broadly conceived to also include the political aspects of networks. The book brings some intellectual clarity to the discussion of networks by asking whether it is possible to construct a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198775261
• ISBN13: 9780198775263
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"