Centrality measures
- Unit centrality measures
- degree centrality
- closeness centrality
- betweenness centrality
- Network centralisation
- according to degree
- according to closeness
- according to betweenness
- Paper on centrality measures:
Social Capital and Value Creation: The Role of Intrafirm Networks
(W. Tsai, S. Ghoshal)
'Central football players'
Examples
Find all centrality and centralisation measures in given networks.
Assignment
Find input, output degree centrality, closeness centrality and
betweenness centrality. Find all centralisation indices as well.
Present results in one table and iterprete them.
Literature
- Wasserman S. in Faust K. (1994): Social Network Analysis. Methods and
Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press (169 - 219)
- Tsai W. in Ghoshal S. (1998): Social capital and value creation: The role
of intrafirm networks. Academy of Management Journal, 41, 464 - 476.
Slides (PDF)