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Creating context for social influence processes in multiplex networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2017

J. ANTONIO RIVERO OSTOIC
J. ANTONIO RIVERO OSTOIC*
Affiliation:
School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, DK-8210 Aarhus V, Denmark (e-mail: jaro@econ.au.dk)
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Abstract

This paper elaborates on two theories of social influence processes to multiplex network structures. First, cohesion influence is based on mutual communication made by different types of relations, and second comparison influence that is built on contrasting types of tie. While a system of bundles with a mutual character constitutes the setting for a multiplex network exposure measure within cohesion, comparison influence is defined algebraically through classes of actors in terms of a weakly balanced semiring structure that considers positive, negative, and also ambivalent types of tie. A case study with these approaches is made on an entrepreneurial community network with formal business relations, informal friendship ties, and perceived competition among the firms, and the methods are validated with the Sampson Monastery data set.

Keywords

multiplex networksnetwork exposurestructural balancebundle patternssemiringsinnovation adoption
Type
Research Article
Information
Network Science , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 1 - 29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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