motif_brokerage: Motifs of brokerage

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Motifs of brokerage

Description

These functions include ways to take a census of the brokerage positions of nodes in a network:

• node_by_brokerage() returns the Gould-Fernandez brokerage roles played by nodes in a network.

• net_by_brokerage() returns the Gould-Fernandez brokerage roles in a network.

• node_brokering_activity() measures nodes' brokerage activity.

• node_brokering_exclusivity() measures nodes' brokerage exclusivity.

Usage

node_by_brokerage(.data, membership, standardized = FALSE)

net_by_brokerage(.data, membership, standardized = FALSE)

node_brokering_activity(.data, membership)

node_brokering_exclusivity(.data, membership)

Arguments

.data	An object of a manynet-consistent class: matrix (adjacency or incidence) from {base} R edgelist, a data frame from {base} R or tibble from {tibble} igraph, from the {igraph} package network, from the {network} package tbl_graph, from the {tidygraph} package
membership	A vector of partition membership as integers.
standardized	Whether the score should be standardized into a z-score indicating how many standard deviations above or below the average the score lies.

References

On brokerage motifs

Gould, Roger V., and Roberto M. Fernandez. 1989. “Structures of Mediation: A Formal Approach to Brokerage in Transaction Networks.” Sociological Methodology, 19: 89-126. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.2307/270949")}

Jasny, Lorien, and Mark Lubell. 2015. “Two-Mode Brokerage in Policy Networks.” Social Networks 41:36–47. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.socnet.2014.11.005")}

On brokerage activity and exclusivity

Hamilton, Matthew, Jacob Hileman, and Orjan Bodin. 2020. "Evaluating heterogeneous brokerage: New conceptual and methodological approaches and their application to multi-level environmental governance networks" Social Networks 61: 1-10. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.socnet.2019.08.002")}

See Also

Other motifs: motif_diffusion, motif_net, motif_node

Examples

# node_by_brokerage(ison_networkers, "Discipline")
# net_by_brokerage(ison_networkers, "Discipline")
node_brokering_exclusivity(ison_networkers, "Discipline")

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