Table of Contents -- Networking at a Glance -- The Basics: What You Need to Know -- Who Needs to Network? -- What's in It for You? -- The Old Boys' Club -- How Networking Works -- Working a Room, and Other Misconceptions -- The Fear Factor -- Your Network (It's Bigger than You Think) --...

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Part 1 Introduction to Patterns -- Chapter 1. Patterns for e-business -- 1.1 The Patterns for e-business layered asset model -- 1.2 How to use the...

In this chapter, we show how embedded social relations affect economic transactions and intraprofessional stratification in the market for legal services. We argue that networks are critical in fostering individual upward mobility not only because they provide valuable information to ego...