Bridge decay

By Ronald S. Burt. Soc. Networks, 2002

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Economic Returns of Immigrants’ Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands 1 (2010, background): “A bridge is a tie that spans a structural hole (Burt 2002).”
Why knowledge does not equal power: the network redundancy trade-off (2008, background): “Accordingly, recent research has emphasized that valuable “structural holes” can be expected to close quickly (Burt, 2002) and that it is questionable whether incumbents can sustain a valuable middleman position (Ryall and Sorenson, 2007).”
Ties That Last (2013, methodology): “Like prior work on this topic (see Burt, 2000, 2002), we were forced to draw boundaries around a network and sacrificed a degree of generalizability for a greater richness of detail.”
The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks (2012, background): “Relatively little research on network outcomes explicitly includes a time dimension (Burt 2002, Soda et al. 2004, Baum et al. 2012), which, although related, is distinct from the issues of network dynamics; it does, however, inform them.”
The Performance Consequences of Ambidexterity in Strategic Alliance Formations: Empirical Investigation and Computational Theorizing (2007, background): “Burt (2002) in his investigation of bankers’ social networks in a large organization found that bridge relations decay at an alarming rate.”
From social capital to entrepreneurial orientation: The mediating role of dynamic capabilities (2017, background): “As noted above, SC requires investments in resources and time, which without maintenance could gradually decay (Burt, 2002).”
Making reconnections in agro-food geography: alternative systems of food provision (2005, background): “The important role played by such ‘bridges’ or ‘weak ties’ between networks, in the spread of information and innovation, is well established (Granovetter, 1973; Burt, 2002).”
Serial Crowdfunding, Social Capital, and Project Success (2017, background): “Neglecting social contacts risks weakening the relationship built on the platform (Burt, 2002), leading to loss of efficacy of social capital (Adler & Kwon, 2002).”
Meeting, mating, and intermediating: How incubators can overcome weak network problems in entrepreneurial ecosystems (2020, background): “Startups rarely actively seek additional funding during this period, and the relationship runs a low risk of decay (Burt, 2002) or dissolution (Fichman and Levinthal, 1991; Knoben et al., 2006).”
Social Network Dynamics and Biographical Disruption: The Case of “First-Timers” with Mental Illness1 (2012, background): “Disruptive events may cause weaker ties to dissolve, compromising the structural integrity of the network and cutting off access to new information and opportunities (Burt 2002; Cornwell 2009).”
The Network Structure Of Social Capital (2000, background): “…Hogarth & Michaud (2000) present evidence from a French chemical finn of salary increasing with the structural holes in a manager's network, and Burt (1997a, 2000b) presents evidence of more positive peer evaluations and higher bonus compensation to investment officers with networks richer in…”