• DOI:10.1086/421787
Corpus ID: 2152743

Structural Holes and Good Ideas1

@article{Burt2004StructuralHA,
  title={Structural Holes and Good Ideas1},
  author={R. Burt},
  journal={American Journal of Sociology},
  year={2004},
  volume={110},
  pages={349 - 399}
}

R. Burt

Published 2004

Sociology

American Journal of Sociology

This article outlines the mechanism by which brokerage provides social capital. Opinion and behavior are more homogeneous within than between groups, so people connected across groups are more familiar with alternative ways of thinking and behaving. Brokerage across the structural holes between groups provides a vision of options otherwise unseen, which is the mechanism by which brokerage becomes social capital. I review evidence consistent with the hypothesis, then look at the networks around… CONTINUE READING

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