Knowledge and Networks

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Exploring the Interaction of Space and Networks in the Creation of Knowledge: An Introduction

   • Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, Ingmar Hammer

   Pages 1-21Open Access

3. Knowledge About Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for Twenty-first Century Knowledge Networks

      • Nancy Ettlinger

      Pages 25-51Open Access

   3. Interpersonal Networks in Foreign Assignments and Intercultural Learning Processes

      • Erika Spieß

      Pages 53-66Open Access

   4. Family Networks for Learning and Knowledge Creation in Developing Regions

      • Pengfei Li

      Pages 67-83Open Access

   5. Studying Networks Geographically: World Political Regionalization in the United Nations General Assembly (1985–2010)

      • Laurent Beauguitte

      Pages 85-102Open Access

   6. (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites

      • Sarah Hall

      Pages 103-116Open Access

4. Network Evolution and Social Outcomes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Organized Mobility and Relational Turnover as Context for Social Mechanisms: A Dynamic Invariant at the Heart of Stability from Movement

      • Emmanuel Lazega

      Pages 119-142Open Access

   3. Trajectory Types Across Network Positions: Jazz Evolution from 1930 to 1969

      • Charles Kirschbaum

      Pages 143-167Open Access

   4. Topology and Evolution of Collaboration Networks: The Case of a Policy-Anchored District

      • Laura Prota, Maria Prosperina Vitale, Maria Rosaria D’Esposito

      Pages 169-190Open Access

   5. Platforming for Path-Breaking? The Case of Regional Electromobility Initiatives in Germany

      • Jörg Sydow, Friedemann Koll

      Pages 191-219Open Access

   6. Brokering Trust to Enhance Leadership: A Self-Monitoring Approach to Leadership Emergence

      • Martin Kilduff, Ajay Mehra, Dennis A. (Denny) Gioia, Stephen Borgatti

      Pages 221-240Open Access

5. Network Geographies of Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241

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   2. How Atypical Combinations of Scientific Ideas Are Related to Impact: The General Case and the Case of the Field of Geography

      • Satyam Mukherjee, Brian Uzzi, Benjamin F. Jones, Michael Stringer

      Pages 243-267Open Access

   3. Connectivity in Contiguity: Conventions and Taboos of Imitation in Colocated Networks

      • Johannes Glückler, Ingmar Hammer

      Pages 269-290Open Access

   4. Are Gatekeepers Important for the Renewal of the Local Knowledge Base? Evidence from U. S. Cities

      • Stefano Breschi, Camilla Lenzi

      Pages 291-313Open Access

   5. Learning Networks Among Swedish Municipalities: Is Sweden a Small World?

      • Christopher Ansell, Martin Lundin, Per Ola Öberg

      Pages 315-336Open Access

   6. The Coevolution of Innovative Ties, Proximity, and Competencies: Toward a Dynamic Approach to Innovation Cooperation

      • Uwe Cantner, Susanne Hinzmann, Tina Wolf

      Pages 337-372Open Access

This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has become increasingly important for scholars to capture societal outcomes by studying social relations and networks, whereas the role of place, space and spatial scales has been somewhat neglected outside an emergent geography of knowledge.

The individual contributions help integrate network arguments of connectivity, geographical arguments of contiguity and contextuality into a more comprehensive understanding of the ways in which people and organizations are constrained by and make use of space and networks for learning and innovation. Experts in the fields of geography, sociology, economics, political science, psychology, management and organizational studies develop conceptual models and propose empirical research that illustrates the ways in which networks and geography play together in processes of innovation, learning, leadership, and power.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

• Knowledge and networks
• Geography of knowledge
• Social Network Analysis
• Network theory
• Innovation

• Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Johannes Glückler, Ingmar Hammer

• Department of Sociology, Institutd’ Etudes Politiques de Paris (SPC) and and Centre for the Sociology of Organizations (CNRS), Paris, France

  Emmanuel Lazega

Johannes Glückler is Professor of Economic and Social Geography and Fellow of the Marsilius Center of Advanced Studies at Heidelberg University. His research follows a relational perspective and builds on theories of organization, networks and institutions in the analysis of the space economy. He serves on several boards of journals in the field of economic geography as well as a partner of the Schader Foundation in the area of social network research. As part of the European ERASMUS Teaching Mobility program, he is a regular visiting professor at the University of Salamanca. He is also co-founder of the M.Sc. Governance of Risks and Resources at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile. He recently co-authored, with Harald Bathelt, The Relational Economy, Oxford University Press, 2011.


Emmanuel Lazega is professor of sociology at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a membre of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CNRS), and current president of the European Academy of Sociology. His current research focuses on the dynamics of multilevel (individual and organizational) networks. He recently co-edited, with Tom A.B. Snijders, Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods and Applications, Springer, 2016. 


Ingmar Hammer is research associate at the University of Heidelberg. He studied geography, business and GIS at the University of Stuttgart and wrote his diploma thesis on innovation networks in biotechnology. Furthermore, Ingmar Hammer has worked in various companies in the high-tech sector. Among his research interests are innovation and business networks, methods of the social network analysis and their application to the analysis of business networks as well as geographies of services.