Sunbelt Conference 2019: Full Schedule

Welcome to the XXXIX Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
Here are some conference-related information... There are more on the Conference Website (you can download some helpful documents directly from the home page, under ’’Shared Files’’).
WiFi:
Network: Visiteurs UQAM User name: asunbelt2019 Password: DQ32fK23
OR
EDUROAM is also available everywhere in all UQAM Buildings.
There is also a Public WIFI Network in Downtown Montréal: MTL-WIFI (see here for more details).
RESTAURANTS There is no lack of good restaurants and bars near the Conference venue and in Montréal globally. Download the pdf file for a few suggestions (under ’’Shared Files’’ on the website).

08:30 EDT

From Texts to Networks to Maps: Social Media and Beyond (6-hour)

Organizers:
Kathleen Carley
Rick Carley

This workshop teaches participants how to extract networks from texts (e.g. tweets, blogs, email contents, newspapers), analyze and visualize these as networks, and examine the results spatially. Participants will learn how to use NetMapper and ORA. Key issues for network based rhetorical assessment of communicative power, social influence and information roles of actors and social media analytics will be addressed. Data sets to be used will include sample news and twitter data. Semantic and meta-networks (high dimensional networks) will be extracted from the texts using NetMapper. Then these networks will be analyzed and visualized using ORA. Sentiment and stance will be extracted from the texts and analyzed in ORA. Special network metrics for social media analytics will be defined and used to assess the data. Network metrics for social media analytics to identify and cluster actors of interest, identification of topic-groups, echo-chambers, and assessment of texts in terms of communicative power will be discussed as will their use with weighted, valenced data. Finally, those networks with spatial information will be analyzed visualized and assessed using geo-spatial networks. This session is intended to be hands-on.

Tuesday June 18, 2019 08:30 - 15:00 EDT
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15:00 EDT

Understanding Diffusion with NetDiffusR (3-hour)

Organizers:
Tom Valente
George Vega Yo

The netdiffuseR package provides a set of tools for analyzing and simulating diffusion of innovations and contagion processes on networks. In this workshop we demonstrate the features of the package through the analysis of both empirical and simulated data on the diffusion of innovations. The session will include examples on how to use netdiffuseR jointly with other network analysis packages such as RSiena, statnet, and igraph. NetdiffuseR's main features are computing network exposure models based on various weight matrices (direct ties, structural equivalence, attribute-weighted, etc.), thresholds, infectiousness and susceptibility, among others. The package works with both static and dynamic networks. Some other capabilities include handling relative large graphs, simulating networks and diffusion of innovation processes, and visualizing the diffusion of innovations. While there are no pre-requisites, it is suggested to have a working knowledge of the R programming language.

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:00 - 18:00 EDT
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Workshops

08:30 EDT

Social Network Approaches for Behavior Change (3-hour)

Organizer: Tom Valente

This workshop introduces the many ways that social networks influence individual and networklevel behaviors. It also provides a brief introduction to analytic approaches for understanding network influences on behaviors; and reviews existing evidence for the utility of using social network data for behavior change in a variety of settings including health behaviors and organizational performance. The workshop presents a typology of network interventions and reviews existing evidence on the effectiveness of network interventions. (Students familiar with the R environment may follow an R script written to demonstrate the 24 or so tactical interventions presented.)

Wednesday June 19, 2019 08:30 - 11:30 EDT
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Workshops

13:40 EDT

Corporate Networks - PM1

Organizer: Roy Barnes

13:40
Fossil Fuel Divestment, Higher Education Institutions, and the Corporate Community: Corporate Influence on Institutional Environmental Policy
J. P. Sapinski, Michael C. Dreiling

14:00
Structural Cohesion and Social Influence in Corporate Networks
Richard Benton, Mark Mizruchi

14:20
Revisiting the Inner Circle Arguments from a Multilevel Perspective on the Corporate Elites: The case of France
Catherine Comet

14:40
The Collective Interests of Large Corporations: Social Movement Protest and the Policy-Planning Network
Tarun Banerjee

15:00
Discussant
Mark Mizruchi

Organizer

Roy Barnes

Wednesday June 19, 2019 13:40 - 15:20 EDT
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Organized Sessions

15:40 EDT

Corporate Networks - PM2

Organizer: Roy Barnes

15:40
Entity Disambiguation of Corporate Network Data
Bruce Cronin

16:00
Board Processes, Director selection and risk-taking behaviour of firms
Srinidhi Vasudevan

16:20
Eyes on the Horizon? Fragmented Elites and the Short-Term Focus of the American Corporation
Richard Benton, J Adam Cobb

16:40
Interplay in Corporate Governance Network: A Multilevel Network Analysis of Board and Executive Director Selection and Collaboration Process in Denmark
Slobodan Kacanski

17:00
Interlocking Directorates and Firm Performance: Role of Brokerage in UK FTSE350Heather McGregor, Matthew Paul Smith, Yasaman Sarabi, Dimitris Christopoulos

Organizer

Roy Barnes

Wednesday June 19, 2019 15:40 - 17:20 EDT
DS-R510

Organized Sessions

09:00 EDT

Organizational Networks - AM1

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

09:00
The Effect of Gossip on Friendship Networks in an Organisational Context
Jose Luis Estevez, Francesca Giardini, Rafael Wittek

09:20
Using Latent Space Model to Study the Impact of Formal Organizational Structure on Gossip Network Formation
Yuqing Liu

09:40
Understanding the Impact of Virtual Mirroring-Based Learning on Collaboration in a Data and Analytics Function: A Resilience Perspective
Nabil Raad

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

I am Assistant Professor in Information Management at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University, in the Netherlands. My research areas include Social Networks, Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Information Systems.

Emmanuel Lazega

Thursday June 20, 2019 09:00 - 10:00 EDT
DS-R510

Organized Sessions

10:20 EDT

Organizational Networks - AM2

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

10:20
Network Determinants of Conflict in Business Organizations
Lizaveta Chernenko

10:40 *CANCELED PRESENTATION*
The Social Structure of Employee Participation in a Representative Democratic Firm
James A. Coutinho, Peng Wang

11:00
Organizational Networks Revisited: Predictors of Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationship Perception
Valentina Kuskova, Elena Artiukhova, Antonina Milekhina

11:20
Do Brokers Gossip Strategically? Investigating Information Sharing and Control in Organizations Using Exponential Random Graph Models
Tanja Sliskovic, Károly Takács, Marko Lucic, Srebrenka Letina

11:40

Understanding Partnership Selection for Habitat Management Among Conservation Organizations Using Social Network Analysis
Sarah Burton, Daniel Kramer

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

Emmanuel Lazega

Thursday June 20, 2019 10:20 - 12:00 EDT
DS-R510

Organized Sessions

13:40 EDT

Organizational Networks - PM1

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

13:40
A Review of Network Studies of Corporate Boards
Peter Dahlin, Pankaj Patel, Vinit Parida

14:00
Regional Differences in Board Network Structures
Peter Dahlin, Cecilia Erixon

14:20
Dynamic Networks of Technological Collaborations: Impact of Globalization and China on Semiconductor Firms in Taiwan
Yu-Wen Lu, Ray-May Hsung

14:40
Buyer-Supplier Network Coevolution: The Role of Board Interlocks As Foundation for Innovation
Rongkang Ma, Rick (HL) Aalbers

15:00

NGOs’ Agenda Building on Twitter in the Refugee Crisis: An Inter- organizational Network Approach
Jingyi Sun

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

Emmanuel Lazega

Thursday June 20, 2019 13:40 - 15:20 EDT
DS-R510

Organized Sessions

15:40 EDT

Organizational Networks - PM2

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

15:40
Joint Production Motivation in Interdisciplinary Networks
Thomas Teekens, Francesca Giardini, Rafael Wittek

16:00
Who Talks to Whom in Lake Basin Management: Comparing Communication Networks of Water Resource Partners of Five Columbia River Headwaters Lake Basins
Karen I. Trebitz, Manoj K. Shrestha

16:20
Twitter Adoption and Interorganizational Alliances Among International Health Organizations
Rong Wang, Jieun Shin

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

Emmanuel Lazega

Thursday June 20, 2019 15:40 - 17:00 EDT
DS-R510

Organized Sessions

08:40 EDT

Organizational Networks - AM1

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

08:40
The Story of Shared Research Bundles: Consumption Collectives
S. Kubra Canhilal, Matthew Hawkins

09:00
Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats: A Social Network Analysis of Lomma and Staffanstorp Municipalities, Sweden
Evangelia Petridou, Per Becker, Jörgen Sparf

09:20
Global Structures of Knowledge-Flow Networks and Local Network Mechanisms
Marjan Cugmas, Aleš Žiberna, Miha Škerlavaj, Anuška Ferligoj

09:40
Flow in Organizations
Valdis Krebs

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

Emmanuel Lazega

Friday June 21, 2019 08:40 - 10:00 EDT
DS-R510

Organized Sessions

10:20 EDT

Organizational Networks - AM2

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

10:20
Relational Event Models for Diary Data.
Mark Tranmer

10:40
Coalition Building and Distortion: New Evidence About Legislative Networks in Ukraine, 1993-2018
Tymofii Brik, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Dmytro Ostapchuk, Oleksandr Nadelnyuk

11:00
Corporate Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Director Networks
Ahmed Eissa, Harjeet Bhabra

11:20
A Multilevel Network Approach to Institutional Entrepreneurship: The Case of French Public-Private Partnerships
Emmanuel Lazega, Chrystelle Richard, Peng Wang

11:40
The Evolution of Knowledge Creation Online: Examining Wikipedia as a Dynamic System
Ruqin Ren

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

Emmanuel Lazega

Friday June 21, 2019 10:20 - 12:00 EDT
DS-R510

Organized Sessions

13:40 EDT

Organizational Networks - PM1

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

13:40
Contexts and Determinants of Cross-University Collaboration: Extracting and Analyzing Networks from Grant Acknowledgement Texts
Jared Adams, Till Krenz, Raffaele Vacca

14:00
Interdisciplinary Colonization: Scholar-Idea Migrations in Academe
Bas Hofstra, Sanne Smith, David Jurgens, Daniel A. McFarland

14:20
How Different Types of Networks Affect Productivity and Influence in a Networked Organization
Tsahi Hayat, Dimitrina Dimitrova, Barry Wellman

14:40
Inter-Group Bridging Dynamics Affecting Organizational Connectivity
Bas Reus, Christine Moser, Peter Groenewegen

15:00
From Mathematical Certainty to Creative Serendipity: Lessons from Japanese Advertising
John McCreery

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

Emmanuel Lazega

Friday June 21, 2019 13:40 - 15:20 EDT
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Organized Sessions

15:40 EDT

Organizational Networks - PM2

Organizer: Emmanuel Lazega and Spyros Angelopoulos
Co-Organizers: Francesca Pallotti and Paola Zappa

15:40
Evolution of the Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Team Science Consortium over Three Years
David A. Shoham, Sonya S. Brady, Toby C. Chai, Bernard L. Harlow, Emily Lukacz, Alayne Markland, Jean F. Wyman, Keith Vargo,

16:00
The Effects of Individual Attributes on the Emergence of Knowledge Sharing and Hiding Networks in Organizational Teams
Chunke Su

Organizer

Spyros Angelopoulos

Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

Emmanuel Lazega

Friday June 21, 2019 15:40 - 16:20 EDT
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Organized Sessions

09:00 EDT

Special Conference-Within-a-Conference on Negative Ties and Signed Graphs - AM1

Organizer: Giuseppe Labianca
Co-Organizers: Filip Agneessens, Samin Aref, Nicholas Harrigan and Zachary Neal

09:00
The Emergence and Stability of Groups in Social Networks
Christoph Stadtfeld, András Vörös, Károly Takács

09:20
The Stability of Blockmodeling of Signed Networks in the Face of Actor Non-Response
Anja Znidarsic, Patrick Doreian, Michael J. Brusco

09:40
The Temporal Dynamics of Negative and Positive Ties
Martijn Jungst

Organizer

Giuseppe Labianca

University of Kentucky

Saturday June 22, 2019 09:00 - 10:00 EDT
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Organized Sessions

10:20 EDT

Special Conference-Within-a-Conference on Negative Ties and Signed Graphs - AM2

Organizer: Giuseppe Labianca
Co-Organizers: Filip Agneessens, Samin Aref, Nicholas Harrigan and Zachary Neal

10:20
The Liability of Balance: On the Relation of Work-Team Polarization and Quality in Open Peer-Production
Juergen Lerner, Alessandro Lomi

10:40
Legislative Effectiveness Hangs in the Balance
Samin Aref, Zachary Neal

11:00
Mediators of Structural Balance
Nicholas Harrigan, Michael Genkin, Rajalakshmi Kanagavel, Janice Yap, Martin Everett

11:20
Structural Balance and Polarization in Global Virtual Teams: Grounding the Role of Negative Ties onto Large Scale Disorder
Marc Idelson, Yuki Yasuda

11:40
Evaluating the Extraction of Signed Networks from Bipartite Projections
Zachary Neal, Rachel Domagalski

Organizer

Giuseppe Labianca

University of Kentucky

Saturday June 22, 2019 10:20 - 12:00 EDT
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Organized Sessions

13:40 EDT

Special Conference-Within-a-Conference on Negative Ties and Signed Graphs - PM1

Organizer: Giuseppe Labianca
Co-Organizers: Filip Agneessens, Samin Aref, Nicholas Harrigan and Zachary Neal

13:40
Special Panel on the Future of Negative Tie and Signed Graph Research
Giuseppe Labianca

14:00
Special Panel on the Future of Negative Tie and Signed Graph Research 1

14:20
Special Panel on the Future of Negative Tie and Signed Graph Research 2

14:40
Special Panel on the Future of Negative Tie and Signed Graph Research 3

15:00
Special Panel on the Future of Negative Tie and Signed Graph Research 4

Organizer

Giuseppe Labianca

University of Kentucky

Saturday June 22, 2019 13:40 - 15:20 EDT
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Organized Sessions