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Christofer Edling

Christofer Edling

Professor

Christofer Edling

Spatial diffusion of social organizing: Modeling trade union growth in Sweden, 1890-1940

Author

  • Christofer Edling
  • F. Liljeros

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.

Publishing year

2003

Language

English

Pages

267-290

Publication/Series

Advances in Strategic Management : A Research Annual

Volume

20

Document type

Book chapter

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • organizations
  • networks
  • movements
  • framework
  • threshold models
  • product growth
  • sociologi
  • sociology

Status

Published