Ronald S. Burt

Structural Holes

Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View Of Trust

The article discusses trust theory, multidisciplinary research, and trust between organizations. The analysis of trust is based on four questions: whether scholars can agree on ...

Trust and Third-Party Gossip

Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition

A structural theory of interlocking corporate directorates

Social Contagion and Innovation: Cohesion versus Structural Equivalence

Two classes of network models are used to reanalyze a sociological classic often cited as evidence of social contagion in the diffusion of technological innovation: Medical Inno...

Interpretational Confounding of Unobserved Variables in Structural Equation Models

The problem of assigning empirical meaning to unobserved variables in structural equation models is discussed. Interpretational confounding is discussed as the assignment of the...

The Network Structure Of Social Capital

The Contingent Value of Social Capital

I present argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people ...

A note on social capital and network content