Social Network Analysis and Organisations



The Idea of Social Network Analysis (6 Hours)


Basic Concepts and History
Scott, J. (2012). What is social network analysis? (p. 114). Bloomsbury Academic
Butts, C. T. (2009). Revisiting the foundations of network analysis. science, 325(5939), 414-416.
Newman, M. E. (2008). The mathematics of networks. The new palgrave encyclopedia of economics, 2(2008), 1-12.
Freeman, L. (2004). The development of social network analysis. A Study in the Sociology of Science, 1(687), 159-167.
Mizruchi, M. S. (1994). Social network analysis: Recent achievements and current controversies. Acta sociologica, 37(4), 329-343.



Social Networks and Organization (4 Hours)

Organisational Contexts and Applications
Krackhardt, David, and Jeffrey R. Hanson. (1993), Informal Networks: The Company behind the chart, Harvard Business Review
Cross, R., Liedtka, J., & Weiss, L. (2005). A practical guide to social networks. Harvard business review, 83(3), 124-132.
Cross, R., Gray, P., Cunningham, S., Showers, M., & Thomas, R. J. (2010). The collaborative organization: How to make employee networks really work. MIT Sloan management review.
Tichy, N. M., Tushman, M. L., & Fombrun, C. (1979). Social network analysis for organizations. Academy of Management Review, 4(4), 507-519.


Design (4 Hours)

Research Methodology 

Social Network Analysis Research Design, Relations and Attributes, Development of Social Network Analysis, Fundamental concepts in Network Analysis

Scott, J. (1991)Social Network Analysis. London: Sage, Chapters 1 & 2, pp 1-33, Chapter 3, pp 38-53

Wasserman, S. and Faust, K. (1994) Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 1, pp 1-27, Chapter 2, pp 28-66

Analytics (6 Hours)

Sociogram and Graphs, Node, Line,
Counting Rules, Directed and Undirected Tie,
Density,
Notations: Graph Theoretic,
Sociometric and Algebraic, Actor Centrality,
Degree Centrality, Closeness Centrality, Betweenness Centrality,

Main Component, K Cores, N Cliques, Clan

Scott, J. (1991) Social Network Analysis. London: Sage, Chapter 3, pp 63-76, Chapter 5, pp 82-96, & Chapter 6, pp 6100-121
Wasserman, S. and Faust, K. (1994) Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 3, pp 69-89, Chapter 5, pp 169-215, Chapter 7, pp 257-266
Freeman, L. C. (1977). A set of measures of centrality based on betweenness. Sociometry, 40(35-41).



Analytics and Visualisation : Ucinet and R (6 Hours)


McNulty, K. (2022). Handbook of graphs and networks in people analytics: with examples in R and python. Chapman and Hall/CRC. 

 
Data handling, transformation, visualization, analysis of cohesion, region, sub-groups, ego-centric networks, centrality and power, roles and position, and 2-mode network
Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. and Freeman, L.C. 2002. Ucinet 6 for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis.
Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies.
Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. and Johnson, J.C. 2013. Analyzing Social Networks. Sage Publications.
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/
https://briatte.github.io/ggnet/
https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-023/RJ-2017-023.pdf


Interesting Papers (4 hours)

Problem of embeddedness, strength of week ties, collective behavior, social contagion and innovation, Mimetic processes, Alliances and network, interorganizational networks, Social capital, Structural holes, Multidimensional networks, collective leadership, team dynamics
Granovetter, M. (1985). Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness. American journal of sociology, 481-510.
Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American journal of sociology, 1360-1380.
Granovetter, M. (1983). The strength of weak ties: A network theory revisited. Sociological theory, 1(1), 201-233.
Granovetter, M. (1978). Threshold models of collective behavior. American journal of sociology, 1420-1443.
Burt, R. S. (1987). Social contagion and innovation: Cohesion versus structural equivalence. American journal of Sociology, 1287-1335.
Gulati, R. (1995). Social structure and alliance formation patterns: A longitudinal analysis. Administrative science quarterly, 619-652.
Gulati, R. (1998). Alliances and networks. Strategic management journal,19(4), 293-317.
Gulati, R., & Gargiulo, M. (1999). Where do interorganizational networks come from? 1. American journal of sociology, 104(5), 1439-1493.
Zaheer, A., Gulati, R., & Nohria, N. (2000). Strategic networks. Strategic management journal, 21(3), 203.
Burt, R. S. (2000). The network structure of social capital. Research in organizational behavior, 22, 345-423.
Contractor, N. S., & Monge, P. R. (2002). Managing knowledge networks.Management Communication Quarterly, 16(2), 249-258.
Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. (2004). Network theory and small groups.Small Group Research, 35(3), 307-332.
Burt, R. S. (2004). Structural holes and good ideas1. American journal of sociology, 110(2), 349-399.
Contractor, N., Monge, P., & Leonardi, P. M. (2011). Multidimensional networks and the dynamics of sociomateriality: Bringing technology inside the network. International Journal of Communication, 5, 39.
Contractor, N. S., DeChurch, L. A., Carson, J. B., Carter, D., & Keegan, B. (2012). The topology of collective leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 23(6) 994-1011.
Sullivan, S. D., Lungeanu, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2015). Space, time, and the development of shared leadership networks in multiteam systems
Leenders, R., Contractor, N. S., DeChurch, L. A. (2015). Once upon a time: Understanding team dynamics as relational event networks. Organizational Psychology Review

Krishna, M., & Paul, G. B. (2017). The structure of collaboration networks: An illustration of Indian economics. Journal of Social Structure, 18, 0_1-18.

Paul, Bino and Krishna M (2011). Does Social Network Matter in Knowledge Output?. Science, Technology and Society, 16(2), 235-255.

Fernandes, D., & Paul GD, B. (2011). Social networks of migrant construction workers in Goa. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 65-77.