Society and Networks

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Social networks emerge from the interactions between human beings, between their organizations, and between human beings and their organizations. The analysis of such networks in corporate and public administration is applied in human resource development, economic planning, marketing, organizational behavior and organizational learning, decision-making, and beyond to corporate and industrial governance, industrial relations, mergers, monopolies and similar combinations, consulting services, and enterprise resource planning. Studies of social capital, competition, the diffusion of innovations, the spread of contagion, geopolitics, and even start-ups have all been significantly advanced by the employment of social network analysis.