The Hidden Power of Social Networks

Acknowledgments

THIS BOOK is a product of its topic. All the ideas we share here have been developed in conjunction with a diverse, rich network of colleagues. Collaborations and conversations with various scholars helped to sharpen our thinking methodologically and theoretically. Close work with people in a wide range of organizations continually pushed us to generate practical applications of social network analysis. In short, our own networks allowed us to bridge scholarship and practice, and it is to these myriad relationships that this book is dedicated.

It is impossible in a short acknowledgment to capture the extent to which our thinking has been advanced by the writing of and conversations with network scholars in fields such as communications, ...