What (Exactly) Is Novelty in Networks? Unpacking the Vision Advantages of Brokers, Bridges, and Weak Ties

Sinan Aral
Sinan Aral
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MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;
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Paramveer S. Dhillon
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Paramveer S. Dhillon
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School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Sinan Aral

[email protected]

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2762-058X

MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;

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Paramveer S. Dhillon

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Paramveer S. Dhillon

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0994-9488

School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

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Published Online:28 Mar 2022https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4377

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cover image Management Science

Volume 69, Issue 2

February 2023

Pages 723-1322, iii-iv

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Received:August 27, 2020
Accepted:September 17, 2021
Published Online:March 28, 2022

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Sinan Aral, Paramveer S. Dhillon (2022) What (Exactly) Is Novelty in Networks? Unpacking the Vision Advantages of Brokers, Bridges, and Weak Ties. Management Science 69(2):1092-1115.

https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4377

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The authors' thank Michael Zhao, David Holtz, the seminar attendees at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, University of Michigan, and Michigan State University for providing invaluable feedback on early drafts of this paper. All errors are the authors' own.