""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Social Structure of Competition""; ""Opportunity and Capital""; ""Information""; ""Structural Holes""; ""Control and the Tertius Gaudens""; ""Entrepreneurs""; ""Secondary Holes""; ""Structural Autonomy""; ""Summary""; ""2. Formalizing the Argument""; ""Network Data""; ""Redundancy""; ""Constraint""; ""Hole Signature""; ""Structural Autonomy""; ""Summary""; ""3. Turning a Profit""; ""Product Networks and Market Profit""; ""The Study Population""; ""Hole Effects""; ""Market Hole Signatures""; ""Summary""
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""Appendix: Weighing Alternatives""""4. Getting Ahead""; ""Contact Networks and Manager Achievement""; ""The Study Population""; ""Hole Effects""; ""Hierarchy""; ""Institutional Holes""; ""Selecting a Network""; ""Summary""; ""Appendix A: Weighing Alternatives""; ""Appendix B: Causal Order""; ""5. Player-Structure Duality""; ""Structural Unit of Analysis""; ""Players and Structures""; ""Escape from Attributes""; ""No Escape""; ""Summary""; ""6. Commit and Survive""; ""Holes and Heterogeneity""; ""Interface and the Commit Hypothesis""; ""Population Ecology and the Survival Hypothesis""
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""Summary""""7. Strategic Embedding and Institutional Residue""; ""The Other Tertius""; ""Strategy Hypothesis""; ""Formal Organization as Social Residue""; ""Personality as Emotional Residue""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
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This analysis of the social structural theory of competition focuses on the "structural hole": a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information. When the two are connected through a third "entrepreneur", the gap is filled, creating important advantages for the entrepreneur.
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