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This network contains the nominations made by thirty-two employees of an organization who were asked to name the colleagues with whom they discuss work matters.
Note that not all nominations are reciprocated.

Background:

This network is a part of the Sawmill communications analysis. Other networks created in that analysis are the Sawmill and Sawmill strike networks.
It was used in the book Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek as an exercise in a form of a question.
The objective of the exercise was to omit the unilateral nominations, which are less reliable, from the network and find out who is most central in this communication network.

Network image:

History:

• Original author: Judd H. Michael (Associate Professor, Wood Products Business Management, School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA 16802; jhm104@psu.edu ; University Park 0305, Forest Resource Lab University Park, PA 16802).
• Data compiled into Pajek data files by W. de Nooy, 2001.

References:

• J.H. Michael, 'Labor dispute reconciliation in a forest products manufacturing facility' (Forest Products Journal, 47 (1997), 41-45).
• W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 6, p134.

More information:

• http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/esna/sawmill.htm
• http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/esna/strike.htm
• http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/book/esna2.htm