David Obstfeld: "Creative projects: A less-routine approach toward getting new things done"

Feb 20, 2009 10am-11:30am B&E 253

"Creative projects: A less-routine approach toward getting new things done" David Obstfeld Univ of California, Irvine abstract

LINKS Center article published in Science

Steve Borgatti, Ajay Mehra, Dan Brass and Joe Labianca have recently (Feb 13, 2009) published a paper in Science. Here are some links relevant to the article:

• UK press release
• Pre-publication version of the article
• Science article (requires access to Science)

Here's the title and abstract:

Network Analysis in the Social Sciences

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network research across the physical and social sciences. For social scientists, the theory of networks has been a gold mine, yielding explanations for social phenomena in a wide variety of disciplines from psychology to economics. Here, we review the kinds of things that social scientists have tried to explain using social network analysis and provide a nutshell description of the basic assumptions, goals, and explanatory mechanisms prevalent in the field. We hope to contribute to a dialogueamong researchers from across the physical and social sciences who share a common interest in understanding the antecedents and consequences of network phenomena.

LINKS Center for Network Research in Business, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506–0034, USA. E-mail: sborgatti@uky.edu (S.P.B.), ajay.mehra@uky.edu (A.M.),dbrass@uky.edu (D.J.B.), and joe.labianca@uky.edu (G.L.)