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krack_advice: Krackhardt High-Tech Managers data

Description

A network of connections between 21 managers at a manufacturing company taken by David Krackhardt in 1987. The three networks available are advice, friendship, and report structure.

Usage

krack_advice

krack_friend

krack_report

Arguments

Format

A directed and unweighted igraph object.

Vertex attributes:

  • Name: Vertex names (character; "v1", "v2", ..., "v21").

  • x,y: A set of plotting coordinates, used if no other layout is supplied (numeric).

  • Age: The age of each manager (integer).

  • Tenure: The tenure of each manager (numeric).

  • Level: The level in the corporate hierarchy (integer; 1 = CEO, 2 = Vice President, 3 = manager).

  • Department: What department each manager is in (integer; 1, 2, 3, 4, or 0 for the CEO).

Details

Edges in the krack_advice and krack_friend networks come survey questions answered by all 21 managers. The krack_report network uses the formal organization chart to define connections between managers.

References

D. Krackhardt, Cognitive social structures. Social Networks. 9, 104 (1987). 10.1016/0378-8733(87)90009-8

S. Wasserman and K. Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge University Press, 1994).