Epinets

"Epinets offers a really exciting new lens for social network analysis, grounded in excellent scholarly work. Joel Baum and Mihnea Moldoveanu's ideas are both intriguing and demanding, yet always presented in clear and accessible language." - Woody Powell, Stanford University, Co-author of The Emergence of Organizations and Markets "Cognition and behavior are increasingly used as variables in social network theory, but Moldoveanu and Baum leapfrog evolution to analyze the purely cognitive underpinnings of social networks. Your epinet refers to your understanding of how other people see you and one another within your network. Combining network analysis with the reflected self- and emotional intelligence, Epinets serves up a buffet of innovation and insight." - Ronald S. Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business "With Epinets, Joel Baum and Mihnea Moldoveanu have created a comprehensive epistemic paradigm challenging the mechanisms behind well-established ideas in social network theory and research. It is a brilliant, fully thought-through tour-de-force complete with theory, constructs, models, language, and empirics. Especially interesting for me is the conjoining of trust with epinets, producing original and sometimes startling findings regarding traditional network roles and trust." - Aks Zaheer, Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota "What your contacts really know remains one of the most intriguing and mysterious quandaries of a powerful social network. Baum and Moldoveanu offer a treasure of insights for solving this puzzle and one thing more - a system, called the Epinet, that illuminates how to grasp and authenticate hidden network knowledge and the competitive benefits of making the unknown known." - Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University