Ron Burt's Central Argument on Structural Holes

Ron Burt writes: "Much of competitive behavior and its results can be understood in terms of player access to 'holes' in the social structure of the competitive arena. Players are onnected with certain others, trusting of certain others, obligated to support certain other, dependent on exchange with certain others. Push here and someone over there moves. By dint of who is connected to whom, holes exist in the social structure of the competitve arena. The holes in social structure, or, more simply, structural holes, are disconnections or nonequivalencies between players in the arena. Structural holes are entrepreneurial opportunities for information access, timing, referrals, and control." See The Social Structure of Competition (Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 1-2.

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