Egocentric, Sociocentric, or Dyadic? Identifying the Appropriate Level of Analysis in the Study of Organizational Networks
| dc.contributor.author | Mizruchi, Mark S. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Marquis, Christopher | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-13T17:45:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-06-13T17:45:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-07-01 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the use of individual, dyadic and system-level analyses in the study of relational data in organizational networks. We argue that dyadic analyses are particularly appropriate when the dependent variable is quantitative and/or involves multiple behaviors. We show that system-level analyses, by aggregating potentially signi?cant information, provide a less grounded account of the relations across networks than do dyadic analyses. Using examples from a study of corporate political behavior, we contrast dyadic analyses with those at both the individual and system-levels. Variables measured in raw dyadic form consistently perform better in accounting for similarity of corporate political behavior than do variables measured by taking system-level properties into account. Our ?ndings suggest that although individual and system-level analyses are useful in a number of situations, dyadic analyses are a ?exible means to examine the effects of multiple networks at multiple levels. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Social Networks 28, no. 3 (July 2006): 187-208 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/36454 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Social Networks | en_US |
| dc.title | Egocentric, Sociocentric, or Dyadic? Identifying the Appropriate Level of Analysis in the Study of Organizational Networks | en_US |
| dc.type | article | en_US |
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