Examines the development and current state of a quickly growing sociological field, Network Exchange Theory.

The field of network exchange has grown over the last 20 years from a few scattered studies to substantial publications in leading journals. Today network excha

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contai

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This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource for those engaged in the cutting edge field of social network analysis. Systematically, it introduces read