Challenges in Social Network Research: Methods and Applications
In: Lecture Notes in Social Networks Ser.
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Corrected Overlap Weight and Clustering Coefficient -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Network Element Importance Measures -- 2 Overlap Weight -- 2.1 Overlap Weight -- 2.2 US Airports Links with the Largest Overlap Weight -- 2.3 Corrected Overlap Weight -- 2.4 US Airports 1997 Links with the Largest Corrected Overlap Weight -- 2.5 Comparisons -- 3 Clustering Coefficient -- 3.1 Clustering Coefficient -- 3.2 US Airports with the Largest Clustering Coefficient -- 3.3 Corrected Clustering Coefficient -- 3.4 US Airports Nodes with the Largest Corrected Clustering Coefficient -- 3.5 Comparisons -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Bottom-Up Collegiality, Top-Down Collegiality, or Inside-Out Collegiality? Analyses of Multilevel Networks, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Laboratories for Social Change -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Politics, Analysis of Multilevel Networks, and Multilevel Relational Infrastructures -- 3 Bottom-Up Collegiality, Top-Down Collegiality, and Inside-Out Collegiality -- 4 An Example of Top-Down Collegiality in Institutional Entrepreneurship -- 5 The Challenge of Contextualizing Multilevel Networks: Organized Mobility and Relational Turnover -- 6 Multispin for Contextualizing Multilevel Networks -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Part I Methods -- Socio-Cultural Cognitive Mapping to Identify Communities and Latent Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Method -- 4 Empirical Results -- 4.1 Hatfield-McCoy Case Study -- 4.2 Ukrainian Parliament Case Study -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Bootstrapping the Gini Index of the Network Degree: An Application for Italian Corporate Governance -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Approach -- 3 Simulations -- 4 Application -- 5 Conclusions -- References.