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Mabel Abraham on why an audience can produce gender bias even when nobody in it is actually biased: entrepreneurs make inferences about others' ...

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Can a network deliver brokerage's diverse information and closure's trust at the same time? Anne ter Wal, Oliver Alexy, Jorn Block, and Philipp ...

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Pierre Azoulay's 1999 company visits were meant as mere background for a statistical dissertation. He, Nelson Repenning, and Ezra Zuckerman recount how that ...

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Writing from Columbia during the 2008 crisis, Lori Yue, Jiao Luo, and Paul Ingram looked back to 1907, when Manhattan's banking elite let ...

Does guanxi fade as markets mature? Heather Haveman, Nan Jia, Jing Shi, and Yongxiang Wang found the opposite in China, where state power ...

Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason study the organizations built to connect countries. They discuss why intergovernmental organizations deliver economic and political benefits ...

Brokerage research celebrates the returns to spanning structural holes while ignoring what brokers spend to earn them. Christopher Rider makes the case for ...

Network scholars study how ties form, rarely how they end. Christopher Rider considers whether interorganizational relationships belong to organizations or to the people ...

Forrest Briscoe and Wenpin Tsai set out to use a law firm merger as a natural experiment on networks. Their diagrams ended up ...

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The blog turns two: 45 interviews published and readers in nearly 50 countries since August 2013. A thank-you to contributors, a call for ...

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Michelle Rogan and Olav Sorenson on why acquirers pick poor partners: shared clients shape who buys whom in global advertising, and the same ...

Hongjin Zhu and Chi-Nien Chung studied what Taiwan's business groups did when the 2000 regime change scrambled political loyalties, and why holding a ...

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