Footnote 5 Social network analysis assumes that relationships are important. The defining feature of social network analysis is its focus on the structure of relationships, ranging from casual acquaintance to close bonds. Understanding when, why, and how they function best is important.

That often underpin these.) To date, however, we are still far from being able to construe their public and organizational power in ways that can harness their potential. (In development work, they can impact policies, strategies, programs, and projects-including their design, implementation, and results-and the partnerships

When they succeed, social networks influence larger social processes by accessing human, social, natural, physical, and financial capital, as well as the information and knowledge content of these. Footnote 3 Indeed, it sometimes appears as though networked organizations outcompete all other forms of organization- Footnote 4certainly, they outpace vertical, rigid, command-and-control bureaucracies. Footnote 2 Social networks are nodes of individuals, groups, organizations, and related systems that tie in one or more types of interdependencies: these include shared values, visions, and ideas social contacts kinship conflict financial exchanges trade joint membership in organizations and group participation in events, among numerous other aspects of human relationships. In parallel, social networks Footnote 1 have grown stronger as forms of organization The information revolution has given birth to new economies structured around flows of data, information, and knowledge.

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