Abstract
The Network Analysis in organizations made in last years some meaningful results owing progress in technology and in the approach to organizational networks. The chapter enhances the need to transfer some results of network analysis from management to the analysis of technical networks. Coming from results in the studies, theoretical and empirical, on business ties and on strong and weak ties connected to the mechanism of control, the chapter proposes a transdisciplinary approach to interpret the differences and the evolution of the types of networks through cycles of simplification and complexification of the control systems. Particularly, as results are connected to the adequacy of control tools, it is relevant to consider managerial concepts, such as the span of control defined as the number of subordinates of a hierarchical position, and the connected capability of networks to maintain control, particularly when the system is wide and highly interconnected.
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