Social network analysis and organizational disintegration: The case of enron corporation

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hasan Murshed, Shahriar Tanvir ^a   Davis, Joseph G ^a   Hossain, Liaquat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centralization; Cliques; Connectedness; Organization disintegration; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZATION; CLIQUES; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; CONNECTEDNESS; E-MAIL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TOP MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870970586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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