Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Emmanuel Lazega, Tom A. B. Snijders

   Pages 1-12

3. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Multiple Flavours of Multilevel Issues for Networks

      • Tom A. B. Snijders

      Pages 15-46

   3. Synchronization Costs in the Organizational Society: Intermediary Relational Infrastructures in the Dynamics of Multilevel Networks

      • Emmanuel Lazega

      Pages 47-77

4. Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Modeling Individual Outcomes Using a Multilevel Social Influence (MSI) Model: Individual Versus Team Effects of Trust on Job Satisfaction in an Organisational Context

      • Filip Agneessens, Johan Koskinen

      Pages 81-105

   3. Multilevel Models for Multilevel Network Dependencies

      • Mark Tranmer, Emmanuel Lazega

      Pages 107-124

   4. Multilevel Network Analysis Using ERGM and Its Extension

      • Peng Wang, Garry Robins, Petr Matous

      Pages 125-143

   5. Correspondence Analysis of Multirelational Multilevel Networks

      • Mengxiao Zhu, Valentina Kuskova, Stanley Wasserman, Noshir Contractor

      Pages 145-172

   6. Role Sets and Division of Work at Two Levels of Collective Agency: The Case of Blockmodeling a Multilevel (Inter-individual and Inter-organizational) Network

      • Aleš Žiberna, Emmanuel Lazega

      Pages 173-209

5. Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Comparing Fields of Sciences: Multilevel Networks of Research Collaborations in Italian Academia

      • Elisa Bellotti, Luigi Guadalupi, Guido Conaldi

      Pages 213-244

   3. Market as a Multilevel System

      • Julien Brailly, Guillaume Favre, Josiane Chatellet, Emmanuel Lazega

      Pages 245-271

   4. Knowledge Networks in High-Tech Clusters: A Multilevel Perspective on Interpersonal and Inter-organizational Collaboration

      • Julia Brennecke, Olaf N. Rank

      Pages 273-293

   5. Inter-organizational Network Influence on Long-Term and Short-Term Inter-individual Relationships: The Case of a Trade Fair for TV Programs Distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Guillaume Favre, Julien Brailly, Josiane Chatellet, Emmanuel Lazega

      Pages 295-314

   6. Multilevel Bilateralism and Multilateralism: States’ Bilateral and Multilateral Fisheries Treaties and Their Secretariats

      • James Hollway, Johan Koskinen

      Pages 315-332

   7. Knowledge Sharing in Organizations: A Multilevel Network Analysis

      • Paola Zappa, Alessandro Lomi

      Pages 333-353

   8. General Conclusion

      • Emmanuel Lazega, Tom A. B. Snijders

      Pages 355-361

6. Back Matter

   Pages 363-375

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This volume provides new insights into the functioning of organizational, managerial and market societies. Multilevel analysis and social network analysis are described and the authors show how they can be combined in developing the theory, methods and empirical applications of the social sciences. This book maps out the development of multilevel reasoning and shows how it can explain behavior, through two different ways of contextualizing it. First, by identifying levels of influence on behavior and different aggregations of actors and behavior, and complex interactions between context and behavior. Second, by identifying different levels as truly different systems of agency: such levels of agency can be examined separately and jointly since the link between them is affiliation of members of one level to collective actors at the superior level. It is by combining these approaches that this work offers new insights. New case studies and datasets that explore new avenues of theorizing and new applications of methodology are presented. This book will be useful as a reference work for all social scientists, economists and historians who use network analyses and multilevel statistical analyses. Philosophers interested in the philosophy of science or epistemology will also find this book valuable. ​

• Complex interactions between levels
• Development of multilevel reasoning
• Identifying levels of influence on behavior
• Multilevel analysis and social network analysis
• Theorizing and new applications of methodology
• Theory, methods and empirical applications in social sciences

• CSO-CNRS, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, SPC, Paris, France

  Emmanuel Lazega

• Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Tom A.B. Snijders

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