Epinets presents a new way to think about social networks, which focuses on the knowledge that underlies our social interactions. Guiding readers through the web of beliefs that networked individuals have about each other and probing into what others think, this book illuminates the deeper...

Although intuitively appealing (and common), drawing network strategy implications from empirical evidence of network performance effects in pooled cross-section is not necessarily warranted. This is because network positions can influence both the mean and variance of firm performance....

Research at the intersection of social networks and strategic management identifies a range of performance-enhancing network position advantages - access to partners, information, innovation, and resources - that are distributed differentially across network positions. While research indicates...

We introduce a formal language for describing epistemic states in networks at the individual (node, or agent) and interactive (multi-node) levels and at multiple epistemic levels (knowledge as well as knowledge about knowledge) and show how it allows us to represent states of belief, confidence...

Peer production, which combines technological, organizational, and institutional advances to enable diverse individuals to socialize, communicate, coordinate, and integrate otherwise fragmented knowledge resources, is one of the most noteworthy Internet-mediated organizational innovations. Among...