We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics … network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … not explain why they emerge. On the contrary, the economics approach is very precise in explaining why networks emerge but …

Informal inter-organizational networks provide manifold opportunities to organize the transfer of information … empirical research on informal networks and their dynamics is surprising. The objective of this paper is twofold. It attempts to …

seems that few scholars have discussed the relationship between social networks and the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution … popular empirical network structures such as small world networks and scale-free networks. In addition, our simulation results … model ; networks ; Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution …

Networks contain complex patterns of dependency and require multiple levels of analysis to explain their formation … appropriate theoretical frameworks to examine network-related problems, (iii) understand how networks emerge and produce effects …