Ronald S.Burt – Brokerage & Closure

Ronald S.Burt – Brokerage & Closure

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Social Capital, which is the advantage of being located in a social system, is crucial to business strategy. As markets, organizations and careers become increasingly dependent on informal, discretionary relationships, the key questions are how they work, who has it and how to build it. The formal organization handles accountability. All other relationships are informal and include advice, coordination friendship, gossip knowledge trust.

Informal relationships have been part of our lives for a long time. They have always mattered. The new thing is the wide range of activities they now matter and the clarity we have about how these create advantages for some people at the expense to others. This is achieved through brokerage and closing.

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Ronald S. Burt draws on his renowned work in this field to examine the nature of brokerage, and closure. Brokerage is the activity of people who live at the intersection of social worlds, who have a vision advantage of seeing and developing good ideas, an advantage which can be seen in their compensation, recognition, and the responsibility they’re entrusted with in comparison to their peers. Closure It is the tightening and coordination within a closed network. People who do this do
Because of their trust and alignment, they work well as an addition to brokers. Brokerage Closure This article examines how these elements interact to create social capital. It demonstrates how reputation has replaced authority, pursued opportunity assignment, reward, and how they can be used together to define it.
associated with achieving competitive advantages in a society of continuous disequilibrium.

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