***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Not sure what the nodes are in your networks [people?, teams?, organizations?] or the links [flow? exchange? infection? influence? investment? co-authorship?] but the physics community has done quite a bit of work on network growth/evolution/expansion. Here are a few starting points... http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/organization/annualReport/00/activities/networkdynamics.html http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0005085 http://www.physics.lsa.umich.edu/newman/papers/growth.ps Valdis "Jensen, Michael" wrote: > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > > Dear Socnetters, > > I would appreciate your help in locating work on sequences in network/relationship formation. Specifically, I'm interested in work (theoretical and empirical) focusing on if/how the order in which ties are formed matter to the overall benefit actors derive from their network position. > > Thanks, > Michael Jensen > University of Michigan > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.