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Identifying Linking-Pin Organizations in Inter-Organizational Networks

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  • Patrick Doreian

    (University of Pittsburgh)

  • Kayo Fujimoto

    (University of Pittsburgh)

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Within the large literature on inter-organizational networks, there has been some discussion of linking-pin organizations and the role they play in integrating these networks. Based on this verbal specification of linking-pin organizations, we construct operational criteria and empirical methods for identifying these structurally important organizations in potentially large and complex inter-organizational networks. These methods are based on ideas drawn from blockmodeling, structural holes, centrality and centralization of networks, and identifying cut-points in networks. These methods are applied to a constructed example and then to real empirical inter-organizational networks. Implications and contrasts with other methods are discussed, together with some open problems.

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  • Patrick Doreian & Kayo Fujimoto, 2004. "Identifying Linking-Pin Organizations in Inter-Organizational Networks," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 10(1), pages 45-68, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:comaot:v:10:y:2004:i:1:d:10.1023_b:cmot.0000032579.62046.0b
    DOI: 10.1023/B:CMOT.0000032579.62046.0b
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    1. Gregorio González-Alcaide & Héctor Pinargote & José M. Ramos, 2020. "From cut-points to key players in co-authorship networks: a case study in ventilator-associated pneumonia research," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 123(2), pages 707-733, May.

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