| krack_advice {concorR} | R Documentation |
Krackhardt High-Tech Managers data
Description
A network of connections between 21 managers at a manufacturing company taken by David Krackhardt in 1987. The three networks available are advice, friendship, and report structure.
Usage
krack_advice
krack_friend
krack_report
Format
A directed and unweighted igraph object.
Vertex attributes:
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Name: Vertex names (character; "v1", "v2", ..., "v21"). -
x,y: A set of plotting coordinates, used if no other layout is supplied (numeric). -
Age: The age of each manager (integer). -
Tenure: The tenure of each manager (numeric). -
Level: The level in the corporate hierarchy (integer; 1 = CEO, 2 = Vice President, 3 = manager). -
Department: What department each manager is in (integer; 1, 2, 3, 4, or 0 for the CEO).
Details
Edges in the krack_advice and krack_friend networks come survey questions
answered by all 21 managers. The krack_report network uses the formal organization
chart to define connections between managers.
Source
The data was found at http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/WaFa/default.htm and reformatted for use in R.
References
D. Krackhardt, Cognitive social structures. Social Networks. 9, 104 (1987). doi: 10.1016/0378-8733(87)90009-8
S. Wasserman and K. Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge University Press, 1994).