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Collection and Analysis of Relational Data in Organizational and Market Settings

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Synonyms

Collecting network data; Peculiarity of data collection in organizations

Glossary

Complete Network:

All relations among members of a particular setting, e.g., an organizational department of a classroom

Ego-Centered Network:

A network where a focal actor is in the center of the analysis. In ego-centered data collection information on the alters is collected not directly but via ego

Exchange Method:

Way to delineate names from network members, focusing on exchanges of resources and joint activities

Name Generators:

Questions in network surveys, to which respondents in reaction mention names of actual network members

Multiplexity:

More than one layer in a relationship, for example, being a brother and friend or working and spending leisure time together

Similarity:

Degree to which two network members share the same attributes

Transitivity:

Among three network members, transitivity is given when A is related to B and B to C; A is also related to C, in the domain of their...

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Beate Volker

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Sociology, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Jacob Dijkstra

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Volker, B. (2018). Collection and Analysis of Relational Data in Organizational and Market Settings. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_273

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