Between Hierarchies and Markets: The Logic and Limits of Network Forms of Organization - Hardcover

Thompson, Grahame F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198775261 ISBN 13: 9780198775263

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book conducts a survey into the ways in which the word 'network' has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular, it offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been used to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organization broadly conceived to also include the political aspects of networks. The book brings some intellectual clarity to the discussion of networks by asking whether it is possible to construct a clearly demarcated idea of a network as a separable form of socio-economic coordination and governance mechanism with its own consistent logic. In doing this, the primary contrast is with hierarchies and markets as alternative and already well understood forms of socio-economic coordination each with their own distinctive logic.

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About the Author

Grahame F. Thompson is Professor of Political Economy and Head of the Department of Government and Politics at the Open University. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Grifith University, UNAM Mexico, and Curtin University. He is the co-author of Globalization in Question (with Paul Hirst, 1999) and editor of Governing the European Economy (2001).

Review

"This is a timely and useful stock-take of the burgeoning literature on organizational networks."--Review of Political Economy

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198775261
• ISBN 13: 9780198775263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282