Krackhardt's High-tech Managers Networks

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krackHighTech

Description

David Krackhardt collected cognitive social structure data from 21 management personnel in a high-tech, machine manufacturing firm to assess the effects of a recent management intervention program.

Attributes

Krackhardt collected a series of different network relations from 21 management personnel in a high-tech machine manufacturing firm. The data contains advice and friendship ties, as well as of formal structure of the organizatio in 'reports to' relation. The relation queried was 'Who does X go to for advice and help with work?', for example with the advice relation. Each person indicated not only his or her own advice and friendship relationships, but also the relations he or she perceived among all other managers, generating a full 21 <d7> 21 matrix of adjacency ratings from each person in the group. The self-reports are stored in 'krackAdviceSelf' and 'krackFriendshipSelf' and the full cognative report are stored in 'krackAdvice' and 'krackFriendship' as a series of network objects.

This data also contains a number of different nodel attribues including the Department, Level, Age, and Tenure of the different manager.

Collection

David Krackhardt collected cognitive social structure data from 21 management personnel in a high-tech, machine manufacturing firm to assess the effects of a recent management intervention program. The relation queried followed the general format, for example to obtain advice ties, 'Who does X go to for advice and help with work?'. Each person indicated not only his or her own advice and friendship relationships, but also the relations he or she perceived among all other managers, generating a full 21 <d7> 21 matrix of adjacency ratings from each person in the group.

Licenses and Citation

Krackhardt's High-tech Managers Networks (1976) https://www.network.data.ics.uci.edu
If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.

Source

Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar (2006): Pajek datasets
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/.

References

The original source should be cited as:
Wasserman, S. and Faust, K. (1994) Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Krackhardt, David. Assessing the Political Landscape: Structure, Cognition, and Power in Organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 35, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 342-369

When publishing results obtained using this data set the original authors should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:
Christopher L. DuBois, Emma S. Spiro, Zack Almquist, Mark S. Handcock, David Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, and Martina Morris. 2003 netdata: A Collection of Network Data
http://www.csde.washington.edu/statnet