This paper reviews the growing body of work on network dynamics in organizational
research, focusing on a corpus of 187 articles—both “micro”(ie, interpersonal) and …

Fueled by recent advances in statistical modeling and the rapid growth of network data,
social network analysis has become increasingly popular in sociology and related …

Social networks are dynamic by nature. While network research has typically treated
relationships between social actors as static, there has been a surge in literature extending …

Much research in network analysis of adolescent friendships assumes that friendships
represent liking and social interaction, friendships are directed, and friendships are …

Real-life social interactions occur in continuous time and are driven by complex
mechanisms. Each interaction is not only affected by the characteristics of individuals or the …

Social relations are embedded in material, cultural, and institutional settings that affect
network dynamics and the resulting topologies. For example, romantic entanglements are …

While sociologists have studied social networks for about one hundred years, recent
developments in data, technology, and methods of analysis provide opportunities for social …

Abstract In classical Social Network Analysis (SNA), what counted as a “social tie” was fixed
by available data collection methods. The emergence of large-scale unobtrusive data …

The proliferation of new, digital communications technologies and platforms over the past
few decades has transformed the way humans relate to one another. In turn, there has been …

Recent studies have found order effects in social network data collection, where later names
on a roster receive fewer nominations. Some thus argue for randomizing name orders or …