centrality_brokerage_liaison: Gould-Fernandez Brokerage — Liaison Role
Description
Liaison brokerage (b_O): count of open directed 2-paths
\(A \to V \to B\) where all three nodes belong to different groups.
The broker mediates between two groups to neither of which they belong.
Integer or character vector of group assignments, length
equal to the number of nodes. Required.
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Additional arguments passed to centrality.
Details
Bit-exact match against sna::brokerage$raw.nli[, "b_O"].
Directed-only.
References
Gould, R. V., & Fernandez, R. M. (1989). Structures of mediation: A formal
approach to brokerage in transaction networks. Sociological
Methodology, 19, 89-126. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.2307/270949").