Search results for " Network analysis"

Social network analysis and political phenomena: a contribution to the small world theory

2014

Network position and innovation capability in the regional innovation network

2019

This paper investigates the positioning of actors characterized by different natures in a regional innovation network and explores how these actors improve their innovation capabilities by assuming prominence or brokering positions. Innovation capability is widely seen to be the driving force in building regional competitive advantage, therefore investigating how the positioning of actors improves their innovation-related activities is relevant in terms of regional competitiveness. This paper builds on a survey conducted on the Sicilian regional area in Italy. A questionnaire was used to collect data concerning the relationships established between actors and the extent to which these relat…

Inovācijas ekosistēmas raksturojums Latvijas un Eiropas Savienības kontekstā, izmantojot Latvijas autonomo auto inovācijas ekosistēmas gadījuma analī…

2018

Maģistra darba „Inovācijas ekosistēmas raksturojums Latvijas un Eiropas Savienības kontekstā, izmantojot Latvijas autonomo auto inovācijas ekosistēmas gadījuma analīzi” mērķis ir izmantojot autonomā auto inovācijas ekosistēmas gadījuma analīzi, raksturot inovācijas ekosistēmas īpatnības Latvijā un identificēt galvenos faktorus, kuri kavē aktieru produktīvu sadarbību inovācijas ekosistēmas ietvaros Latvijā. Darba ietvaros izvirzīti sekojoši pētnieciskie jautājumi: Kādi faktori ietekmē inovācijas ekosistēmas produktivitāti Latvijā? Kādas ir būtiskākās barjeras, kas kavē inovācijas ekosistēmas spēju radīt vērtību Latvijā? Mērķa sasniegšanai apskatīti starptautiskie pētījumi, inovācijas ekosist…

Friends, academic achievement, and school engagement during adolescence : A social network approach to peer influence and selection effects

2018

Abstract Peers become increasingly important socializing agents for academic behaviors and attitudes during adolescence. This study investigated peer influence and selection effects on adolescents' emotional (i.e., flow in schoolwork, school burnout, school value), cognitive (i.e., school effort), and behavioral (i.e., truancy) engagement in school. A social network approach was used to examine students of post-comprehensive education in Finland (N = 1419; mean age = 16). Students were asked to nominate peers to generate peer networks and to describe their own school engagement at two time points (one year apart). Network analyses revealed that the degree to which peer influence and selecti…

Principles of social media monitoring and analysis software

2013

The social significance of the Facebook Like button

2015

In this paper we study social aspects of using the Like button for purposes of impression management, identity construction, and maintenance of social ties online. On the theoretical level our investigation combines Goffman’s notion of face-work with concepts of social network analysis, shedding light on what we dub ‘nano-level’ interaction and sociality on social networking sites. Our data come from a 2013 classroom survey in which 26 Finnish university students were asked about their motives for and ways of using the Like button. Our results show that though the Like button was designed to allow users to express their positive evaluations of the contents of Facebook posts, comments, and p…

Detection of Fake Profiles in Social Media - Literature Review

2017

Revealing Fake Profiles in Social Networks by Longitudinal Data Analysis

2017

Tourism destination and the role of trust

2012

Tourism destinations increasingly pose new challenges to the organizational and management aspects of tourism. The non-cooperative behavior of some companies, the difficulties of sharing a system of values, the absence or inadequacy of destination managers keep some destinations off the map of growth that is sought for by the stakeholders and shareholders of a given resort. This difficulty seems to lie in the scarce knowledge of the system of relations existing between firms and their degree of cooperation. The application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and some indicators for network analysis provides a clearer and more analytical map of the links between tourism businesses located withi…

Tourism Destination Brokers: a network analytic approach

2022

Understanding the interactions of tourist companies could be relevant for the destination’s organisation and management. The present article employs a network analysis to examine inter-organisational interactions and the various roles that some companies assume in tourism destinations. The results reveal the existence of a network in which enterprises, identified as brokers, take on strategic roles both within and outside of their specific sub-sectors of origin. This study proposes new social network analysis indicators to identify the distinctive and prevalent position of company brokers, who manage inter-organisational relations by spontaneously assuming specific roles within the tourist …