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Social Network Analysis in Organizational Structures Evaluation

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Synonyms

Corporate hierarchy; Enterprise management; Organizational design; Organizational network analysis; Social network analysis in organizations

Glossary

HR:

Human resources

Organizational Chart:

A diagram representing the formal structure in the organization

ONA – Organizational Network Analysis:

The analysis of the organization which focuses on the relationship between the informal social network and the formal structures in the organization: organizational charts, process definitions, and others

OSN – Organizational Social Network:

An informal social network, which was created from the data collected within the organization like e-mail logs, phone call records, surveys, and others

MSN – Multilayered Social Network:

The social network which consists of multiple layers; each of them represents different type of information used as a source for creating the network layer

SNA:

Social network analysis

Definition

Although typical social network analysis (SNA) may bring interesting...

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, the decisions no. DEC-2016/21/B/ST6/01463 and 2015/17/D/ST6/04046.

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  1. Department of Computational Intelligence, ENGINE – The European Centre for Data Science, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland

    Radosław Michalski & Przemysław Kazienko

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, 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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Michalski, R., Kazienko, P. (2017). Social Network Analysis in Organizational Structures Evaluation. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_277-1

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