An introduction to social network analysis

Durland, Maryann M.; Fredericks, Kimberly A.

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“…It has been widely used in the private sector to improve organizational function 18,19 and is increasingly applied in program evaluation to describe the nature and extent of complex collaborative networks and bounded populations, such as WINR. 11-13,16,17 Nodes, the basic elements in a network, represent definable entities, such as people, departments, and organizations. Links describe relationships, or flows, between nodes and denote their association; an example of a link would be a publication on which 2 investigators share authorship.…”

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“…11-15 SNA has been used to evaluate collaborative relationships in educational and research communities 11-13,16,17 and to assess progress toward building transdisciplinary relationships among investigators. 15 In the case of the Native Investigator Development Program, the network of faculty and trainees is called the Web of Indigenous and Native Researchers (WINR).…”

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Weaving the Native Web: Using Social Network Analysis to Demonstrate the Value of a Minority Career Development Program

Buchwald

Dick

2011

Academic Medicine

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Purpose American Indian and Alaska Native scientists are consistently among the most underrepresented minority groups in health research. The authors used social network analysis (SNA) to evaluate the Native Investigator Development Program (NIDP), a career development program for junior Native researchers established as a collaboration between the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Denver. Method The study focused on 29 trainees and mentors who participated in the NIDP. Data were collected on manuscripts and grant proposals produced by participants from 1998 to 2007. Information on authorship of manuscripts and collaborations on grant applications was used to conduct social network analyses with 3 measures of centrality and 1 measure of network reach. Both visual and quantitative analyses were performed. Results Participants in the NIDP collaborated on 106 manuscripts and 83 grant applications. Although 3 highly connected individuals, with critical and central roles in the program, accounted for much of the richness of the network, both current core faculty and “graduates” of the program were heavily involved in collaborations on manuscripts and grants. Conclusions This study’s innovative application of SNA demonstrates that collaborative relationships can be an important outcome of career development programs for minority investigators, and that an analysis of these relationships can provide a more complete assessment of the value of such programs.

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Weaving the Native Web: Using Social Network Analysis to Demonstrate the Value of a Minority Career Development Program

Buchwald

Dick

2011

Academic Medicine

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“…The answer can be found on the application of social network analysis in organizations. In a nutshell, social network analysis (SNA) is the process of studying social structures, by usually analyzing social dichotomous data with a variety of measures developed based on graph theory that helps to explain how those social structures evolve trough time, and how they impact the environments where they exist [35,36]. Social network analysis theory can play a very important role in bringing light to the social capital challenges [37].…”

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Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Project Critical Success Factors

Nunes

Abreu

2020

Sustainability

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A key challenge in project management is to understand to which extent the dynamic interactions between the different project people-through formal and informal networks of collaboration that temporarily emerge across a project´s lifecycle-throughout all the phases of a project lifecycle, influence a project's outcome. This challenge has been a growing concern to organizations that deliver projects, due their huge impact in economic, environmental, and social sustainability. In this work, a heuristic two-part model, supported with three scientific fields-project management, risk management, and social network analysis-is proposed, to uncover and measure the extent to which the dynamic interactions of project people-as they work through networks of collaboration-across all the phases of a project lifecycle, influence a project's outcome, by first identifying critical success factors regarding five general project collaboration types ((1) communication and insight, (2) internal and cross collaboration, (3) know-how and power sharing, (4) clustering, and (5) teamwork efficiency) by analyzing delivered projects, and second, using those identified critical success factors to provide guidance in upcoming projects regarding the five project collaboration types.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1503 2 of 32 competency and training are important factors, it is almost always the network factor that is the big key predictor of high performance in organizations and are usually characterized by having broader and diverse problem-solving networks fueled with positive energy [20]. But a broader network does not necessarily mean larger in size. Furthermore, some authors argue that when it comes to effective networks of collaboration, bigger does not always means better, but rather, superior quality means better [7,8]. However, creating a broad and diverse problem-solving network usually requires an extra mile from the employees of an organization, essentially because they need to be more flexible, accountable, and empowered, and proactively search and maintain such networks. This also means that more work will be done through informal networks of relationships, removing to a certain extent, the role of the formal organizational structure in several ways [8,21]. In fact, building a broader and more diverse problem-solving network requires a proper organizational structure that enables people to strategically create the necessary connections in an energized way. Usually, due its rigid nature, a formal organizational structure [6] is not able to provide for the needs of building such problem-solving networks [8,22]. However, either under the pressure or when highly motivated to get the work done, employees of an organization naturally engage in informal networks of collaboration, in order to overcome the natural constraints of the formal organizational structure to get the work done [8,22,23]. Very often these emerging informal networks are not ruled by the rational-legal authority system that the formal organizational structure provides ba...

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“…), quels acteurs sont périphériques ou dépendants des autres. Elle se concentre sur les relations entre acteurs plutôt que sur leurs caractéristiques individuelles (Durland et Fredericks, 2005). L'analyse de réseaux sociaux peut donner lieu à l'utilisation d'outils mathématiques pour analyser les relations entre les individus.…”

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An introduction to social network analysis

Abstract: The application of social network analysis methodologies is relatively new for mainstream evaluation and has yet to be fully explored in this discipline. This chapter discusses how and why SNA is appropriate for evaluation practice.

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Weaving the Native Web: Using Social Network Analysis to Demonstrate the Value of a Minority Career Development Program

Weaving the Native Web: Using Social Network Analysis to Demonstrate the Value of a Minority Career Development Program

Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Project Critical Success Factors

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