NETWORK ANALYSIS AND ORGANIZATION SOCIOLO GY

This article is a non-technical introduction to intra- and inter-organ izational network analysis. It comprises a general presentation of the method's main principles and procedures, a number of studies using it , and the problems which can arise when it is used for empirical resea rch. Resemblances to strategic analysis a la francaise are described a s well as with any inductive approach based on an ethnographical knowl edge of the field. In this way, network analysis would seem on the one hand to be a method which consolidates classical organizational theor y by making abstract concepts operational, and on the other hand, to b e a technical and conceptual stimulus for organization and economic so ciology.