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dc.contributor.authorAyvaz, Demet
dc.contributor.authorGürsun, Gonca
dc.contributor.authorÖzlale, Ümit
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-14T12:41:10Z
dc.date.available2020-04-14T12:41:10Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.identifier.issn2468-6964en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/6512
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468696418300624
dc.description.abstractThe collaboration among individuals is essential to maximize economic efficiency. Today most of the technological and economical advancements require multidisciplinary efforts. Therefore promoting interaction and knowledge sharing between industry sectors within a country is more crucial than ever. One main platform for such communication is business-oriented online social networks where thousands of professionals from various sectors connect with each other. These social networks provide a way of disseminating the latest information in technology and business. Our goal in this paper is to analyze the connectivity patterns of individuals in a business-oriented social network as a tool to understand how industry sectors are represented and interact with each other in such online platforms. To do that, we collect profiles of thousands of employees from a professional online social network. Then, first, we analyze the structural properties of the network and report its characteristics in comparison with the non-professional ones. Second, we map each employee to the sector she works in and study the connectivity patterns within each sector separately. We find that the connectivity patterns within sectors vary and the employees within a sector do not necessarily form densely connected communities. Third, we investigate the relationship between sectors via the connectivity of their employees and identify the main social clusters of sectors. We show that there are significant similarities between social connectivity and the economic transactions between sectors.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.ispartofOnline Social Networks and Media
dc.rightsrestrictedAccess
dc.titleOn characterizing sectoral interactions via connections between employees in professional online social networksen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.peerreviewedyesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.contributor.departmentÖzyeğin University
dc.contributor.authorID(ORCID 0000-0003-3048-6403 & YÖK ID 239220) Gürsun, Gonca
dc.contributor.authorID(ORCID 0000-0003-4024-6067 & YÖK ID 160539) Özlale, Ümit
dc.contributor.ozuauthorGürsun, Gonca
dc.contributor.ozuauthorÖzlale, Ümit
dc.identifier.volume8en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1en_US
dc.identifier.endpage16en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.osnem.2018.10.001en_US
dc.identifier.scopusSCOPUS:2-s2.0-85063100453
dc.contributor.ozugradstudentAyvaz, Demet
dc.contributor.authorMale1
dc.contributor.authorFemale2
dc.relation.publicationcategoryArticle - International Refereed Journal - Institutional Academic Staff and PhD Student


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