Bernhard Schieber

Network closure

Knowledge

Network closure is dense interconnection among contacts that can support trust, obligations, reputation, and norm enforcement. It is the counterpart to brokerage across structural holes and can complement it when teams need both coordinated execution and access to distinct information.

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Key concept

Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.

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Theories & Explanatory Models

Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.

Executive Insight BriefStructural Holes: Find Where Network Diversity Actually Enters the DecisionRead the brief →

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