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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"tie strength"”.
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Computing tie strength
… has investigated for decades under the name tie strength, a term for the strength of a relationship between two people. Despite many compelling findings along this line of research, social media does not incorporate tie strength or its lessons. Neither does most research on large-scale social …
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Strength matters : tie strength as a causal driver of networks' information benefits
… have often taken the existence of a social tie as a proxy for the transmission of information. However, other studies of social networks in the labor market propose that the likelihood of information transmission might depend on strength of the tie; and that tie strength is a potentially …
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Mutual information: inferring tie strength and proximity in bipartite social network data with non-metric associations
… mutual information-based measures to represent tie strength or proximity between individuals from bipartite social network data with non-metric associations. Unlike network datasets with explicit links between nodes, bipartite networks provide only implicit indications of the probable existence …
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Come a Little Closer: Examining Spillover Priming Effects from a Network Perspective
… political officials via strong or weak ties to a president. To address this glaring gap in the literature, a 3X2 online experiment, manipulating prime valence and tie strength, was conducted. More specifically, a news transcript was manipulated to portray the educational issue, Race to …
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The Effects of Strong Ties on Socialization
… thorough understanding is needed concerning how tie strength between individuals facilitates the socialization process.</p> <p>This thesis has two objectives. First, two types of antecedents to strong tie development are explored: orientation practices deployed by organizations to promote …
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The Characteristics and Functions of Weak Ties
… of this study was to identify dimensions of weak tie relationships including characteristics (e.g., distinctive qualities, traits, or properties), functions (e.g., outcomes, purposes, or meanings derived from the interaction) and determinants of engagement to gain insight into the weak tie …
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Can I borrow your expertise? Integrating transactive memory system, social network, and social resources theory
… team members. The results also indicate that tie strength and psychological empowerment moderate expertise utilization process. Implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed.
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Essays on Information Technologies, Social Networks and Individual Economic Outcomes
… causal study of the relationship between social tie strength and individual labor market outcomes (measured as job mobility) using LinkedIn's People-You- May-Know randomizations. It shows an inverted U-shape relationship between tie strength and job transmissions, as well as a globally negative …
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The Social Network and Attachment Bases of Loneliness
… other dorm residents. Patterns of relational ties among participants were evaluated using social network analysis, specifically density, tie strength, and four forms of centrality. Results reveal that, while controlling for neuroticism, the network measure of outdegree and the two attachment …
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IT IS A SMALL WORLD AND IT IS ONLY GETTING SMALLER: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES WHILE ACCOUNTING FOR THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIATORS AND MODERATORS
… of social networks (i.e., centrality, tie strength) can affect the performance and satisfaction of employees at work. Then, I explore the role that perceptions of fit (i.e., person-group fit, person-organization) may play in mediating the relationship between social network …
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The Association Between Co-authorship Network Structures and Successful Academic Publishing Among Higher Education Scholars
… structure of both structural holes and strong ties may be possible. The data suggested that co-authoring multiple times with the same scholars (mean tie strength) may be critical to realizing the potential value buried within the structural holes (Burt, 2001).</p>
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Inferring social structure and dominance relationships between rhesus macaques using RFID tracking data
… group enables a number of important capabilities, including: 1. A verifiable measure of how the social structure is affected by an intervention such as a change in the environment, or the introduction of another animal, and 2. A potentially significant reduction in person hours normally used …
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Effects of social media on diffusion of responsibility in crowdfunding
… There is, however, a lack of research on whether tie-strength between the backers may moderate the diffusion of responsibility effect. To study this, we designed an interface to examine how the level of existing support may interact with the strength of relationships to impact people's attention …
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Efficient Data Modelling, Indexing and Processing in Large Datasets
… As both the user engagement of nodes and the strength of relationships are important, the (k, s)-core model is proposed in the literature to discover strong communities. Nevertheless, the decomposition algorithm regarding (k,s)-core is not yet investigated. We propose (k,s)-core algorithms to …
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The Internet Connectivity: 1.5 Generation Chinese Migrants and Social Capital
… regarding young migrants' communicative activities on social network sites and microblogging, illustrating the maintenance of social capital in different forms. Research findings show that the Chinese migrant youth employ all available means to connect with strong-tie contacts, whereas they …
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The Effects of Coopetition and Coopetition Capability on Firm Innovation Performance
… competition) and two types of cooperation (type strength of a focal alliance and tie strength between partners). The empirical evidence indicates that the balance between competition and cooperation at both the dyadic and portfolio levels increases the potential of firms to generate greater …
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International Students' Social Integration and Social Support
… Network-related characteristics, such as tie strength, degree centrality, and network density, influenced some or all types of social support. To further explore the nuanced meanings of cultural support, the third study introduced a two-level model for international students’ cultural …
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Navigating the university system: The effects of Chinese and Indian graduate students' social networks on academic progression
… are enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. All of these students face challenges associated with integrating into their new host education environments and learning how to make their way through the rules and regulations of their host university and community. Social network theories …
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The Role of Social Capital in Driving Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs): Insights from Nigeria
… reviews 50 articles to evaluate network tie strength, Findings suggest both configurations are situationally valuable: cohesive or strong ties foster internal collaboration, while weak ties unlock novel knowledge flows. Beyond structural configurations, the review underscores the need to …
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Hands in the Pockets of Mercurial Donors: How Three Theories Explain Ngo Responses to Shifting Funding Priorities
… the potential impact of changing funding priorities on NGO behavior and decision-making. It raises two questions: How do NGOs respond to changes in donor funding objectives? Why do NGOs react the way they do?</p> <p>NGOs react to changes in the external environment in different ways (Thompson …