Glossary
- Exchange Method:
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Way to delineate names from network members, focusing on exchanges of resources and joint activities
- Name Generators:
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Questions in network surveys, to which respondents in reaction mention names of actual network members
- Multiplexity:
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More than one layer in a relationship, for example, being a brother and friend or working and spending leisure time together
- Similarity:
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Degree to which two network members share the same attributes
- Transitivity:
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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 relationship
- Ego-Centered Network:
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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
- Complete Network:
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All relations among members of a particular setting, e.g., an organizational...
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Volker, B. (2014). 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/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_273
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