Friday, 22 April 2005

An OD guru's bibliography of social network analysis

As happy hour gathers steam this Friday afternoon, let's raise a pint to Jim Murphy, leader of the Massachusetts Bay OD Learning Group. And if you're looking for an especially good pint to raise, may I commend to you Jim's beer website.

Even though Patti Anklam and I thought we had the bases covered with our own SNA bibliography, Jim found a few gems worth adding. For two ends of the spectrum, see Verna Allee's article from OD Practitioner, and then look at Ulrike Gretzel's site, which is really something.

And so without further ado, here are links to and descriptions of interesting SNA sites, in the inimitable words of Jim Murphy:

Verna Allee, “Knowledge Networks and Communities of Practice”
http://www.odnetwork.org/odponline/vol32n4/knowledgenets.html
OD Practitioner article; mostly on CoP with some SNA

Albert Laszlo Barabasi, Linked, New York, Penguin (Plume Book), 2003
Good introduction to network concepts

Ulrike Gretzel, “Social Network Analysis”
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/TSE-portal/analysis/social-network-analysis/
Good academic site, with copious links

International Network for Social Network Analysis
http://www.insna.org/
Lots of stuff and links

Charles Kadushin, “Introduction to Social Network Theory”
http://www.analytictech.com/networks/
Long, mostly theoretical paper with wide ranging bibliography

Julie Liebeskind et al, “Social Networks, Learning and Flexibility”
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=issr
Very heavy Institute for Social Science Research paper on social networks in a biotech firm

Public Broadcasting System
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/connect.html
Network analysis of al-Qeda

John Scott, Social Network Analysis, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 2000
Handbook with theory and applications

Social Network Analysis Instructional Web Site
http://www.analytictech.com/networks/
Many free items, plus links

Social Networks
http://www1.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/son/menu.sht
Multidisciplinary scholarly journal

SocioSite: Networks, Groups, and Social Interaction
http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/interaction.html
Many links to (mostly distantly) related concepts

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