Structural Holes versus Network Closure as Social Capital

By Ronald S. Burt. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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International collaboration in science and the formation of a core group (2008, background): “The average degree— a measure of the spread of influence across the network(4)—was higher in 2000 and 2005 than in 1990, suggesting that as the network grew, influence and power were spread more widely among nations at the global level (Burt, 2001).”
LinkedIn and Facebook in Belgium (2010, background): “As individuals are found to be highly selective on those they refer to their organization due to reputation effects (Burt, 2001; Casella & Hanaki, 2008; Finneran & Kelly, 2003), the added value of social networks could, however, be rather limited.”
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany 1 (2012, background): “Furthermore, several studies in the literature on the native-born population suggested that social contacts whose social networks extend far beyond one’s own network are more valuable in the labor market than social contacts whose social network overlaps with one’s own network (Burt 2000; Granovette”
Value of Strong Ties to Disconnected Others: Examining Knowledge Creation in Biomedicine (2009, background): “Regarding network density, sparse ego networks (when a person’s direct exchange partners have few direct ties to each other) likely contain diverse knowledge resources, so sparse ego networks promote creativity (Burt 2001).”
Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems (2016, background): “Following the “markets-as-networks” [121] and Burt’s theories, it is possible to argue that in the local produce marketplaces, we find “structural holes” [30] where connections between small and medium-size producers and processor, on the one side, and individuals, group of individuals consumers and”
Determinants of Collaboration in European R&D Networks: Empirical Evidence from a Discrete Choice Model (2011, background): “On the other hand, the existence of non-redundant ties generates arbitrage opportunities for the holder; this is called the structural holes argument (Burt, 2001): organizations that connect otherwise disconnected parts of the network, are able to control information flows between the groups.”
The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks (2010, neutral): “Cohesion indicates the degree of redundancy of relationships within a network (Burt 2001).”
The Relative Ineffectiveness of Criminal Network Disruption (2014, background): “Entrepreneurs on either side of the brokerage position rely on the broker for indirect access to resources and information beyond their reach 36,37 .”
Resource Search, Interpersonal Similarity, and Network Tie Valuation in Nascent Entrepreneurs’ Emerging Networks (2012, background): “…have tended to focus on (1) an organization’s placement within a comparatively dense or comparatively diffuse interorganizational network structure (Burt, 1982, 2001; Coleman, 1988), and/or (2) the obligations, dependencies, and trust created through an organization’s existing network…”
Quality of Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts: Rationale for Investment Conceptual Framework and Implications for Equity (2011, background): “Network characteristics such as density, multiplicity of modes of communication or resources of- fered, and contact across otherwise isolated networks are of relevance in the conceptualization of communication quality at the systems levels (Burt, 2001).”
‘I Don’t Trust the Phone; It Always Lies’ (2007, background): “These “bridging” forms of social capital (Putnam 2000) link people to distant acquaintances who move in different circles from their own and ªll “structural holes” (Burt 2001) between discrete groups of people operating in separate social worlds.”
The economic returns of bonding and bridging social capital for immigrant men in Germany (2012, background): “Recent discussions on social capital distinguish between ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ (Putnam 2000; Burt 2001).”