The study analyzes the social structure of competition. It addresses the consequences of voids in relational and resource networks. Competitive behavior can be understood in terms of player access to "holes" in the social structure of the competitive arena. Those "structural holes" are network...

This study tries to explain the island's remarkable economic and political success and shows that the traditional cultural values that provided the basic motivating force for the operation of the integrated system in the traditional agrarian society is still operative. (DÜI-Sbt)