Abstract
In Japanese society, there is an important social culture, that is, people are used to exchange name cards when making initial introductions in social events. To understand social relations arising from this phenomenon, this paper constructs two social networks, an interpersonal and an inter-organizational network, based on social events from historical name card data. By using statistical techniques and visualization approaches, we analyze and compare the structural characteristics of the two social networks and their evolutions. Our work infers that big social event plays an important role in promoting the development of social network between people or organizations, and especially creating critical linkages in the organizational social network. This study provides a good potential for exploring social strategies to facilitate organizational cooperation in future.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing, BESC 2017 |
Editors | Yves Demazeau, Jianbo Gao, Guandong Xu, Jaroslaw Kozlak, Klaus Muller, Imran Razzak, Hao Chen, Yanhui Gu |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 1-5 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Volume | 2018-January |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538623657 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2017 |
Event | 4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing, BESC 2017 - Cracow, Poland Duration: 16 Oct 2017 → 18 Oct 2017 |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing, BESC 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Poland |
City | Cracow |
Period | 16/10/17 → 18/10/17 |
Keywords
- inter-organizational social network
- name card data
- social event
- social network analysis
- social network evolution