Fragmentation versus Cohesion

Fragmentation versus Stability in Bimodal Coalitions

Competing bimodal coalitions among a group of actors are discussed. First, a model from political sciences is revisited. Most of the model statements are found not to be contained in the model. Second, a new coalition model is built. It accounts for local versus global alignment with respect to the joining of a coalition. The existence of two competing world coaltions is found to yield one uniq...

Social Contagion and Innovation: Cohesion versus Structural Equivalence

Fragmentation or cohesion? Visualizing the process and consequences of information system diversity, 1993-2012

Received: 27 October 2014 Revised: 29 December 2015 Accepted: 12 January 2016 Abstract In information systems (IS) literature, there is ongoing debate as to whether the field has become fragmented and lost its identity in response to the rapid changes of the field. The paper contributes to this discussion by providing quantitative measurement of the fragmentation or cohesiveness level of the fi...

School Social Fragmentation, Economic Deprivation and Social Cohesion and Adolescent Physical Inactivity: A Longitudinal Study

OBJECTIVES To examine the independent influence of school economic deprivation, social fragmentation, and social cohesion on the likelihood of participating in no physical activity among students. METHODS Data are from a large-scale longitudinal study of schools based in disadvantaged communities in Quebec, Canada. Questionnaires were administered every year between 2002 and 2008 among n = 14...

pseudoscalar versus vector meson production in heavy quark fragmentation

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