Network Analysis. It is based on social network analysis and qualitative content analysis and takes an entirely relational … compare discourse network analysis with political claims analysis, a competing method, and apply both methods to the European …

network exhibits a sufficient degree of interconnectedness. When the model is extended to allow an expanding acquaintance set …

the importance of immigrant employment links: network members are much more likely than other immigrants to be employed in … alternative specifications. For example, in a high value network - one with an average employment rate in the 90th percentile - a … one standard deviation increase in the log of the number of contacts in the network is associated with almost a 5 …

's network position, it has not been explicitly studied which networks emerge if actors follow incentives for these two … positional advantages. We propose such a model and observe that network dynamics differ considerably in a scenario with either … social consequences, we find low clustering when actors strive for either type of centrality. Surprisingly, actors striving …

, but their effects are nonlinear: the social network effect is U-shaped, whereas that of belonging to a minority group …

Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …

, community, or group with network, and what the analytical gains are if any. Building upon recent ethnographic fieldwork … that the network approach is too narrow a way for conceiving the linkages and connections between individuals; the …

Do network theory really offer a suitable concept for the theorization of informal processes of economic regulation and … the positive and negative effects of network governance in contemporary societies in a range of regional contexts. The … a grounded theory approach, this article draws on cutting-edge network research from East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa …

Previous migration facilitates future population moves, a phenomenon called network migration. However, thus far …, network migration has been closely linked to network externalities. In contrast, this paper argues that the incumbent … migration population can actively impact on future migration flows, yet fails to achieve a Pareto optimal network size due to …