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Structural Holes Analysis

Structural holes analysis, developed by Ronald Burt, measures the brokerage opportunities available to an actor by examining the gaps — structural holes — between their otherwise disconnected contacts. An actor whose contacts do not know each other bridges non-redundant sources of information and control and is said to be rich in structural holes; an actor whose contacts are all interconnected is constrained. The core measures — network constraint, effective size, and efficiency — quantify how much advantage an ego's network structure confers.

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Burt's Structural Holes and Network Constraint

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Burt, R. S. (1992). Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Harvard University Press. · ISBN 978-0-674-84371-4
Burt, R. S. (2004). Structural holes and good ideas. American Journal of Sociology, 110(2), 349–399. · DOI 10.1086/421787

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