"Knowledge Acquistion in Loosely-Coupled Organizations: Scholarly Citation Networks Meet Social Networks"

Research Personnel: Patrick Doreian (Pittsburgh), Howard White (Drexel), Barry Wellman, Emmanuel Koku, Nancy Nazer, Anabel Quan (Toronto), Alesia Zuccala

Description:
Citation networks indicate the flow of knowledge and intellectual influence among scholars. Scholarly networks indicate friendship, colleagueship and contact among scholars. We use information collected from the Globenet, Technet, and mathmatical scholarly networks study to see the interplay between social relations and information acquisition in a loosely-coupled virtual organization of knowledge workers