Com as exportações, empresas obtêm vantagens que podem ser ainda mais ampliadas ao se trabalhar em redes. Esta pesquisa analisou qualitativamente o comportamento das exportações brasileiras e utilizou programa UCINET como ferramenta.Os resultados apontam Brasil é exportador de commodities 95% são realizadas pelas grandes com destino principalmente aos Estados Unidos à China. No contexto micro, ...

This paper introduces empirical studies of visualizing Taiwan’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) knowledge maps and assessing academic performance. Social network analysis is applied to visualize ITS knowledge maps to quantify the strength of the connections between individuals or universities. The results from the empirical study show that the development of ITS research is very promis...

This paper introduces empirical studies of visualizing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) knowledge maps and assessing academic achievements. Social network analysis is applied to visualize ITS knowledge maps to quantify the strength of the connections among individuals or universities. The results from empirical study show that development of ITS research is very promising worldwide. Cit...

In a paper examining informal networks and organizational crisis, Krackhardt and Stern (1988) proposed a measure assessing the extent to which relations in a network were internal to a group as opposed to rokerage roles ategorical attributes external. They called their measure the E–I index. The measure is now in wide use and is implemented in standard network packages such as UCINET (Borgatti ...

This research examines results from a dual case study in defining a model for high productivity and performance of cross-functional development teams in an aerospace engineering community. More specifically it explores cohesiveness and team dynamics over an approximate 4-year period in a project team that recently designed and built a highly innovative propulsion system. The ‘successful’ team d...

This research used four approaches to identify opinion leaders in two networks in an Egyptian Village. One approach was used for identifying single opinion leaders (network centrality measures), and three approaches were used to identify sets of key players (group centrality, network efficiency, and KPP-Pos & KPP-Neg). Social network analysis software (UCINET 6) was used for individual & group ...

PURPOSE Social network analysis (SNA) provides a way of quantitatively analyzing relationships among people or other information-processing agents. Using 2 practices as illustrations, we describe how SNA can be used to characterize and compare communication patterns in primary care practices. METHODS Based on data from ethnographic field notes, we constructed matrices identifying how practice...

This study aims to assess the nanotribology research output at global level using scientometric tools. The SCOPUS database was used to retrieve records related to the nanotribology research for the period 1996-2010. Publications were counted on a fractional basis. The level of collaboration and its citation impact were examined. The performance of the most productive countries, institutes and m...

An Impact Factor is one measure of the relative importance of a journal, individual article or scientist to science and social science literature and research. Each index or database used to create an impact factor uses a different methodology and produces slightly different results, revealing the importance of using several sources to judge the true impact of a journal's or scientist’s work. I...