Social networks and spatial configuration-How office layouts drive social interaction

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-58

  Sailer, Kerstin ^a   McCulloh, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential random graph model; Interaction patterns; Intra organizational networks; Office layout; Space Syntax; Spatial configuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855207004     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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