Business Management : Quality Assurance and Testing
In the lean approach, product defects result in quality-level waste due to the time and resources spent to find, fix,…
Business Management : Technical Design and DevOps
Refactoring and Tolerance for Future Changes Due to the iterative nature of the lean approach, the technical architecture of a…
Climate Change: Insurance Issues
There is now a consensus among the scientific community that the climate is changing, with potential risk to the global…
Insurance : Cellphones and Driving
Increased reliance on cellphones has led to a rise in the number of people who use the devices while driving.…
Disability Insurance Basics
Disabling injuries affect millions of Americans each year. Disability insurance, which complements health insurance, helps replace lost income if an…
Politics : Critique and Progress
The work cited above is by no means exhaustive and many more speciWc domains of application could be reviewed. In…
Politics : Social Influence, Social Psychology, and Political Culture
The network approach has also been used to understand patterns of social inXuence, social cognition, and political culture. Krackhardt’s (1990)…
Political Mobilization and Social Movements
The network concept has also had signiWcant impact in the study of political mobilization and social movements. Much of this…
Politics : Markets
The Welds of political economy and economic sociology have also used the idea of networks to conceptualize markets and market…
Politics : Organizations
The study of organizations is another area in which network institutionalism is well represented. La Porte’s (1975) work on complexity,…