Hierarchy is a fundamental phenomenon in management and organization science, a phenomenon which has marked the evolution of human societies over centuries. Among the many studies on this issue, the ones that adopt a formal approach of investigation are mainly based on social network analysis....

The years of epistemological – and a fortiori, methodological – Manicheism waded: since the seventies, excepted for the supporters of positivism, as an epistemological position, and mathematical analytical approach, as a methodological position, methodological pluralism and non-positivist...

"This book identifies and presents the four main network-based methodologies including network analysis, Boolean network simulation modeling, artificial neural network simulation modeling, and agent-based simulation modeling in addition to their conceptual-epistemological implications and...