Identifying Linking-Pin Organizations in Inter-Organizational Networks

Patrick Doreian () and Kayo Fujimoto ()
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Patrick Doreian: University of Pittsburgh
Kayo Fujimoto: University of Pittsburgh

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2004, vol. 10, issue 1, No 3, 45-68

Abstract: Abstract Within the large literature on inter-organizational networks, there has been some discussion of linking-pin organizations and the role they play in integrating these networks. Based on this verbal specification of linking-pin organizations, we construct operational criteria and empirical methods for identifying these structurally important organizations in potentially large and complex inter-organizational networks. These methods are based on ideas drawn from blockmodeling, structural holes, centrality and centralization of networks, and identifying cut-points in networks. These methods are applied to a constructed example and then to real empirical inter-organizational networks. Implications and contrasts with other methods are discussed, together with some open problems.

Keywords: cut points; interorganizational networks; centrality; structural holes; organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1023/B:CMOT.0000032579.62046.0b

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