- Docente: Raffaele Corrado
- Credits: 3
- SSD: SECS-P/08
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Economics and management (cod. 9203)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and management (cod. 9203)
Learning outcomes
This laboratory introduces concepts, methods and software tools for the analysis of organizational and inter-organizational networks, as a natural and applied complement to the relational perspective developed on more theoretical grounds in the Administrative Processes course. A the end of the course the student: - Is familiar with the relevance of networks in understanding organizations and their strategies; - Knows the main concepts developed in the field of “network analysis”; - Has a basic working knowledge of the data, methods and software required to perform the analysis of social and organizational networks.
Course contents
- Role of relations within and between organizations
- Introduction to basic techniques for analyzing networks
- Laboratory practice of network analysis in the computer lab
Readings/Bibliography
- Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G., Johnson, J.C., Analyzing Social Networks. Sage, 2013
- Hanneman, R.A., Riddle, M., Introduction to Social Network Methods. University of California, Riverside, 2005
(published at http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/)
Teaching methods
Lecture, laboratory practice
Assessment methods
Written exam. Laboratory assignment (network analysis).
Links to further information
https://sites.google.com/site/profraffaelecorrado/
Office hours
See the website of Raffaele Corrado