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Abrahamson, Eric and Rosenkopf, Lori. 1997. Social network effects on the extent of innovation diffusion: A computer simulation. Organization Science 8:289-309.

ACSC Keywords: social networks, DIFFUSION of innovations, COMPUTER simulation

Baba, Marietta L. 2003. Working knowledge goes global: knowledge sharing and performance in a globally distributed team. Anthropology of Work Review 24:19-29.

ACSC Keywords: management, globalization, information networks, social networks

Borgatti, Stephen P. and Cross, Rob. 2003. A relational view of information seeking and learning in social networks. Management Science 49:432-445.

Author's Keywords: organizational learning, information, social networks, transactive knowledge

ACSC Keywords: diffusion

Borgatti, Stephen P. and Molina, José Luis. 2003. Ethical and strategic issues in organizational social network analysis. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 39:337-349.

Author's Keywords: organization, ethics, social networks, Institutional review boards

ACSC Keywords: diffusion

Crona, Beatrice Irene and Örjan Bodin. 2006. What you know is who you know? Communication patterns among resource users as a prerequisite for co-managementk. Ecology and Society 11.

Author's Keywords: East Africa, fisheries, co-management, ecological knowledge, social networks, communication patterns, fishing gear

ACSC Keywords: local ecological knowledge

Crona, Beatrice Irene, Bodin, Örjan, and Ernstson, Henrik. 2006. Social networks in natural resource management: What is there to learn from a structural perspective?. Ecology and Society 11.

Author's Keywords: natural resource management, adaptive management, co-management, social networks, structure

Cross, Rob, Borgatti, Stephen P., and Parker, Andrew. 2001. Beyond answers: dimensions of the advice network. Social Networks 23:215-235.

Author's Keywords: problem reformulation, guttman scale, advice network

ACSC Keywords: knowledge management, social networks, Scaling (Social sciences), Social sciences--Network analysis

Cumming, Graeme S. and Collier, John. 2005. Change and identity in complex systems. Ecology and Society 10.

Author's Keywords: ecosystem, resilience, complexity, identity, economy, society, evolution, social networks, adaptive cycle, limitation, replacement, random walk, social-ecological system, metamodels

Diani, Mario and McAdam, Doug. 2003. Social movements and networks: Relational approaches to collective action. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

ACSC Keywords: boundaries, Social movements Congresses, Social networks Congresses, Collective behavior Congresses, shared activities, surveying, matrices, social cohesion, alliance networks

Folke, Carl, Hahn, Thomas, Olsson, Per, and Norberg, Jon. 2005. Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 30:441-473.

Author's Keywords: governance, resilience, ecosystem management, social capital, adaptive capacity, leadership

ACSC Keywords: social networks

Folke, Carl. 2006. Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social-ecological systems analyses. Global Environmental Change 16:253–267.

Author's Keywords: resilience, adaptive capacity, Social–ecological systems, Transformations

ACSC Keywords: social networks

Hansen, Morten T. 1999. The search-transfer problem: The role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organization subunits. Administrative Science Quarterly 44:82.

ACSC Keywords: organization, research, knowledge management, social networks, COST, NEW products

Hansen, Morten T. 1999. The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits. Administrative Science Quarterly 44:82.

Author's Keywords: organization, research, knowledge management, social networks, COST, NEW products

Hill, R. A. and Dunbar, R. I. M. 2003. Social network size in humans. Human Nature 14:53-72.

Author's Keywords: social networks, Frequency of contact, Group size, Humans, Neocortex size

ACSC Keywords: SOCIAL groups, INTERPERSONAL relations, CHRISTMAS cards, GREETING cards, RELATEDNESS (Psychology), WESTERN society

Janssen, Marco A., Bodin, Orjan, Anderies, John M., Elmqvist, Thomas, Ernstson, Henrik, McAllister, Ryan R. J., Olsson, Per, and Ryan, Paul. 2006. Toward a Network Perspective of the Study of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. Ecology and Society 11.

Author's Keywords: resilience, social-ecological systems, social networks, network topology, social-ecological networks

Lin, Nan. 1999. Social networks and status attainment. Annual Review of Sociology 25:467-487.

Author's Keywords: diffusion, social capital, social networks, Social resources, Status attainment

ACSC Keywords: diffusion

Nardi, Bonnie A., Whittaker, Steve, and Schwarz, Heinrich. 2002. NetWORKers and their Activity in Intensional Networks. Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing 11:205-242.

Author's Keywords: communities of practice, social networks, activity theory, collaborative work

ACSC Keywords: Ethnology, SOCIAL groups, WORK environment, TEAMS in the workplace -- Data processing

Naveh, Zev. 2000. What is holistic landscape ecology? A conceptual introduction. Landscape and Urban Planning 50:7-26.

Author's Keywords: landscape ecology, systems approach, Transdisciplinarity, Information society, holism

ACSC Keywords: social networks

Newman, Lenore and Ann Dale. 2005. Network structure, diversity, and proactive resilience building: A response to Tompkins and Adger. Ecology and Society 10(1).

Author's Keywords: sustainable development, resilience, social capital, social networks, precautionary principle

Sørensen, Eva. 2002. Democratic theory and network governance. Administrative Theory & Praxis 24:693.

ACSC Keywords: democracy, political science, social networks, PUBLIC administration, POLITICAL doctrines

Schweizer, Thomas, Hage, Per, Harary, Frank, Houseman, Michael, Kent, Susan, and Wolfe, Alvin W. 1997. Embeddedness of ethnographic cases: A social networks perspective [and comments and reply]. Current Anthropology 38:739-760.

ACSC Keywords: embeddedness, social networks

Stacey, Judith. 1988. Can there be a feminist ethnography?. Women's Studies International Forum 11:21-27.

ACSC Keywords: collaboration, social networks

Stevenson, William B. and Greenberg, Danna. 2000. Agency and social networks: Strategies of action in a social structure of position, opposition, and opportunity. Administrative Science Quarterly 45:651-678.

ACSC Keywords: social structure, social policy, social networks, INTERORGANIZATIONAL relations, ORGANIZATIONAL structure, INFLUENCE (Psychology), SOCIAL action

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