In trying to assess the validity of formal definitions of positional analysis it is necessary to ... more In trying to assess the validity of formal definitions of positional analysis it is necessary to have certain standard test data. The mathematical literature contains a large collection of important graphs specifically constructed as counter-examples to conjectures. We show that one of these graphs is useful in understanding the workings of certain positional analysis techniques. 1.
Borgaöi, S. 1998. EHcitatìon techniques for cultural domain analysis. In 3. Schensul & M. LeC... more Borgaöi, S. 1998. EHcitatìon techniques for cultural domain analysis. In 3. Schensul & M. LeCompte (Eds ) The Ethnographer's Toolkit, Vol. 3. Walnut Creek. CA- Altimira Press. Chapter 1 Elicitation Techniques for Cultural Domain ...
This chapter contains sections titled: Seeking Information from People, Qualitative Phase: Method... more This chapter contains sections titled: Seeking Information from People, Qualitative Phase: Methods, Qualitative Results, Quantitative Phase: Methods, Quantitative Results, Discussion and Conclusion, Acknowledgments, References
This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust\u27s Social Network Analysis: Metho... more This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust\u27s Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that appeared in the 1990s. They review recent advances in network measurement, network sampling, analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, analysis of diffusion through networks, analysis of affiliation or two-mode networks, the theory of random graphs, and dependence graphs
In this article, the authors explore the use of graph layout algorithms for visualizing proximity... more In this article, the authors explore the use of graph layout algorithms for visualizing proximity matrices such as those obtained in cultural domain analysis. Traditionally, multidimensional scaling has been used for this ...
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '13, 2013
ABSTRACT Project affiliation networks (i.e., individuals connected through common project team me... more ABSTRACT Project affiliation networks (i.e., individuals connected through common project team memberships) create fruitful junctures to understand how individuals are connected to others in their social contexts, especially in distributed organizations. Advances in technology-mediated environments further help individuals develop connections with their colleagues who may or may not be collocated. This embeddedness creates inertial pressures on individuals and constrains them to conform to firm norms and thus stay with the firm. In this paper, we examine whether ties to those who quit the firm can trump the feeling of connection to the firm and thus motivate subsequent quit decisions. We argue that individuals with a greater number of defectors in their project affiliation networks are more likely than others to leave the firm and the influence on those focal individuals will be higher when they are collocated and occupy similar professional roles as the affiliated defectors. We analyze complete project affiliation data linking 728 geographically distributed employees at a multi-national high technology firm across five years to test these arguments. During this time 183 employees voluntarily left the firm. The findings support our arguments and suggest that project affiliation networks in such settings occasion social comparisons among employees and serve as conduits for the diffusion of their career mobility decisions. We discuss the implications of our work for managing voluntary turnover in knowledge intensive distributed organizations.
In trying to assess the validity of formal definitions of positional analysis it is necessary to ... more In trying to assess the validity of formal definitions of positional analysis it is necessary to have certain standard test data. The mathematical literature contains a large collection of important graphs specifically constructed as counter-examples to conjectures. We show that one of these graphs is useful in understanding the workings of certain positional analysis techniques. 1.
Borgaöi, S. 1998. EHcitatìon techniques for cultural domain analysis. In 3. Schensul & M. LeC... more Borgaöi, S. 1998. EHcitatìon techniques for cultural domain analysis. In 3. Schensul & M. LeCompte (Eds ) The Ethnographer's Toolkit, Vol. 3. Walnut Creek. CA- Altimira Press. Chapter 1 Elicitation Techniques for Cultural Domain ...
This chapter contains sections titled: Seeking Information from People, Qualitative Phase: Method... more This chapter contains sections titled: Seeking Information from People, Qualitative Phase: Methods, Qualitative Results, Quantitative Phase: Methods, Quantitative Results, Discussion and Conclusion, Acknowledgments, References
This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust\u27s Social Network Analysis: Metho... more This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust\u27s Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that appeared in the 1990s. They review recent advances in network measurement, network sampling, analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, analysis of diffusion through networks, analysis of affiliation or two-mode networks, the theory of random graphs, and dependence graphs
In this article, the authors explore the use of graph layout algorithms for visualizing proximity... more In this article, the authors explore the use of graph layout algorithms for visualizing proximity matrices such as those obtained in cultural domain analysis. Traditionally, multidimensional scaling has been used for this ...
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '13, 2013
ABSTRACT Project affiliation networks (i.e., individuals connected through common project team me... more ABSTRACT Project affiliation networks (i.e., individuals connected through common project team memberships) create fruitful junctures to understand how individuals are connected to others in their social contexts, especially in distributed organizations. Advances in technology-mediated environments further help individuals develop connections with their colleagues who may or may not be collocated. This embeddedness creates inertial pressures on individuals and constrains them to conform to firm norms and thus stay with the firm. In this paper, we examine whether ties to those who quit the firm can trump the feeling of connection to the firm and thus motivate subsequent quit decisions. We argue that individuals with a greater number of defectors in their project affiliation networks are more likely than others to leave the firm and the influence on those focal individuals will be higher when they are collocated and occupy similar professional roles as the affiliated defectors. We analyze complete project affiliation data linking 728 geographically distributed employees at a multi-national high technology firm across five years to test these arguments. During this time 183 employees voluntarily left the firm. The findings support our arguments and suggest that project affiliation networks in such settings occasion social comparisons among employees and serve as conduits for the diffusion of their career mobility decisions. We discuss the implications of our work for managing voluntary turnover in knowledge intensive distributed organizations.
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