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Seeing Workplaces from a Social Network Analysis (SNA) Approach
Highlights
The chapter introduces Social Network Analysis (SNA) in the context of work organizations, and displays how SNA contributes to workplace learning research by unveiling formal or hidden informal structures.
The chapter targets quantitative analysis and its framework focuses on cohesion, structural equivalence and personal (egocentric) networks, with an emphasis on the cohesion approach – a measure of connectedness and togetherness within a network.