highTechManagers {cssTools}

High Tech Managers Data Set

Description

Krackhardt (1987) reports the CSS data collected from 21 managers in a high tech machinery firm. Perceptions of all individuals on the whole network is provided.

Usage

data(highTechManagers)

Format

A 21 by 21 by 21 array of zeroes (nonexistence of tie) and ones (existence of tie), where the perception slice of the i-th individual correspons to highTechManagers[,,i].

Details

In a CSS data set, each actor not only reports his or her self-ties, but also answers questions on all possible ties in the network. Then a CSS for a network involving N individuals may be represented by a three dimensional array R_{i,j,m} (i,j,m=1,...,N), where i is the sender, j is the receiver, and m is the perceiver of the relationship. This data set contains the CSS given in Krackhardt (1987), which reports the perceptions of all individuals in a network of 21 managers in a high tech machinery firm. In the original data 17th slice is problematic since row 17 in this slice consists of ones only. To overcome this, we replaced row 17 with column 17.

References

Krackhardt, D. (1987). Cognitive social structures. Social Networks 9, 109-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(87)90009-8

Examples

data(highTechManagers)
sliceQuality(highTechManagers)