Shared understanding is not only a prerequisite for the strategic alignment between IT and business but also one dimension of it. A community can shape its actors’ opinions or perceptions, and hence, a shared understanding is composed as a result of interactions within a community. This case study aims at identifying the intra-organizational communities, which have an effect on the perceived st...

intordaction : religion and its concepts have been a main as well as unique source in producing social capital. the development of social capital, as the raw material for a civil society, depends on certain variables including religion and religious culture. in spite of numerous researches on social capital and its factors, there are few systematic studies undertaken to examine interrelationshi...

This paper analyzes the level of scientific collaboration and interaction in different subject fields using a novel social network analysis (SNA) on a data set provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technologic Information (OSTI) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This paper not only determines the level of scientific collaboration between different disciplines, but it also a...

Humans are autonomous, intelligent, and adaptive agents. By adopting social network analysis techniques, we submit a framework for the study of dynamic networks and demonstrate the use of actor-oriented specifications in longitudinal networks. Through the use of a unique command and control dataset from experiments run at the US Military Academy, we illustrate the power of testing hypotheses on...

The growing awareness that human communications and social interactions are assuming a stratified structure, due to the availability of multiple techno-communication channels, including online social networks, mobile phone calls, short messages (SMS) and e-mails, has recently led to the study of multidimensional networks, as a step further the classical Social Network Analysis. A few papers hav...

nowadays, a lot of natural resource co-management plans due to lack of attention to stakeholders’characteristics and position in network of social relationships have failed. actors or key personnel’srecognition has been one of administrative requirement of natural resources co-management plans.the most influential actors in environmental decisions making can be identified based on stakeholdersa...

Recently, aggregated journal-journal citation networks were made accessible from the perspective of each journal included in the Science Citation Index (see http://www.leydesdorff.net/). The local matrices can be used to inspect the relevant citation environment of a journal using statistical analysis and visualization techniques from social network analysis. The inspection gives an answer to t...