Social network analysis: Foundations and frontiers on advantage

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 527-547

  Burt, Ronald S ^a   Kilduff, Martin ^b   Tasselli, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

achievement; creativity; dynamics; embeddedness; personality; structural hole

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872461605     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143828     Document Type: Review

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