The Legacy of Social Networks in a Failed Public Accounting Firm

摘要

Perhaps reflecting the value of its human capital,professional service organizations have appreciated the social contacts of its personnel for some time.Unlike technical knowledge,whose development was the focus of formal education and to a large extent could be assumed to exist in plentiful degrees,social networks tend to be underappreciated as a vital career resource for individuals and a strategic asset for organizations.Public accounting provides an exemplary case of a service sector industry,highly dependent upon the ranee and depth of these networks.