This volume provides new insights into the functioning of
organizational, managerial and market societies. Multilevel analysis and
social network analysis are described and the authors show how they can
be combined in developing the theory, methods and empirical applications
of the social sciences. This book maps out the development of multilevel
reasoning and shows how it can explain behavior, through two different
ways of contextualizing it. First, by identifying levels of influence on
behavior and different aggregations of actors and behavior, and complex
interactions between context and behavior. Second, by identifying
different levels as truly different systems of agency: such levels of
agency can be examined separately and jointly since the link between
them is affiliation of members of one level to collective actors at the
superior level. It is by combining these approaches that this work
offers new insights. New case studies and datasets that explore new
avenues of theorizing and new applications of methodology are presented.
This book will be useful as a reference work for all social scientists,
economists and historians who use network analyses and multilevel
statistical analyses. Philosophers interested in the philosophy of
science or epistemology will also find this book valuable.
