This theoretical paper investigates how fields influence network advantage. While network theorists conceptualise network advantage as originating in network structure, the paper calls attention to the issue of field forces acting on network nodes. As defined by Fligstein and McAdam (2012), fields have stakes requiring certain kinds of resources and information. Stakes induce forces that act on those who belong to the field. The paper’s main claim is that network advantage is influenced by how fields align with each other. Bridging ties might connect to fields irrelevant to the stake of the broker’s main field, in which case no brokerage advantage can be realised from the tie that bridges the two fields. Likewise, ties within a tight cluster might go across structurally invisible field boundaries, rendering cohesion benefits ineffectual. In other words, the paper calls attention to the fact that not all structural holes are created equal, that boundaries can be present between two nodes even when a tie exists between them, and that not all bridging and closure ties will be advantageous to the same degree. The paper proposes a field-network framework that helps define where brokerage and closure ties are effectual, ineffectual, or detrimental to network advantage.