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The Trouble with Networks: Managing the Scots' Early-Modern Madeira Trade

Category: Ionian History
Type: Article
Book Title: Η ασφάλιση των γαλαξειδιώτικων πλοίων
Author: Hancock David
Editor: Kiraly K. Bela
Journal: Business History Review
Pages: 467-491
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Library catalog: Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
Date: Autumn 2005
Language: English

Abstract:

[471] ... The use of 'network' to refer to an interconnected group of people did not occur often, if at all, before the 1940s. In the aftermath of World War II, however, scientists and engineers became interested in the norms and rules that governed their activities, and they began to use 'network' to describe their communication patterns. ....


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