Microfoundations and measurement for ambiguity in communication with application to social networks
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Extant research often models ambiguity — that one object can have multiple interpretations — as "noise" or "optional" (e.g. McMahan and Evans 2018, Reagans and Zuckerman 2008). This stance is in tension with evidence that ambiguity is common, exists to varying degrees, and is consequential. Ambiguity is therefore better thought of as "more or less" rather than "yes or no". Predictably, literatures that seek to bracket ambiguity find themselves without the analytical tools to specify core theoretical claims and devise measurement strategies. This dissertation works towards taking ambiguity seriously by introducing microfoundations for its analytical specification and a measurement strategy at the level of the word. To demonstrate the benefits and broader ramifications of this orientation, these theoretical and methodological tools are applied to the "brokerage" literature (Burt 1982) to surface, clarify, and resolve a long-standing contradiction: do brokers merely transmit or actively translate?.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Manian, Venkatesan Govind |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Goldberg, Amir |
| Thesis advisor | Goldberg, Amir |
| Thesis advisor | Potts, Christopher, 1977- |
| Thesis advisor | Sorensen, Jesper B, 1967- |
| Degree committee member | Potts, Christopher, 1977- |
| Degree committee member | Sorensen, Jesper B, 1967- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | V. Govind Manian. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Business. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cw154vb8832 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Venkatesan Govind Manian
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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