Christofer Edling
Professor
Spatial diffusion of social organizing: Modeling trade union growth in Sweden, 1890-1940
Författare
Summary, in English
We develop a model to analyze the growth of social organizations as a spatially nested mixed-influence diffusion process. Drawing on gravity models and threshold models, we split the social system into social units and model the diffusion process as a system of differential equations. The diffusion of a new organizational form in a social unit is a function of an internal process within the unit and external processes in the surrounding units. The model is confronted with data on the growth of trade unions in Stockholm, Sweden, between 1890 and 1940.
Publiceringsår
2003
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
267-290
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Advances in Strategic Management : A Research Annual
Volym
20
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- organizations
- networks
- movements
- framework
- threshold models
- product growth
- sociologi
- sociology
Aktiv
Published