← Back to research

The Two-Pipe Problem: Analysing and Theorizing about 2-Mode Networks

networks
bipartite
2-mode
methodology

Antoine Vernet, Martin Kilduff, and Ammon Salter, “The Two-Pipe Problem: Analysing and Theorizing about 2-Mode Networks,” Research in the Sociology of Organizations (2014), doi: 10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040017

Authors
Affiliations

Antoine Vernet

University College London

Martin Kilduff

University College London

Ammon Salter

University of Warwick

Published

April 1, 2014

Doi

10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040017

Abstract

Bipartite networks (e.g., software developers linked to open-source projects) are common in settings studied by organization scholars. But the structure underlying bipartite networks tends to be overlooked. Commonly, two modes are reduced to one mode for analysis, causing loss of information. We review techniques for projecting 2-modes onto 1-mode and discuss 2-mode measures of clustering. We also address the potential for 2-mode theory development concerning (a) how change in one mode influences change in the other, (b) the question of two types of agency, and (c) how diversity in one mode is a substitute for diversity in the other mode.

Citation

 Add to Zotero 

@inbook{VernetKilduffSalter2014
author = {Vernet, Antoine and Kilduff, Martin and Salter, Ammon},
   title = {The Two-Pipe Problem: Analysing and Theorizing about 2-Mode Networks},
   booktitle = {Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks},
   series = {Research in the Sociology of Organizations},
   pages = {337-354},
   ISBN = {978-1-78350-751-1
978-1-78350-752-8},
   DOI = {10.1108/s0733-558x(2014)0000040017},
   year = {2014},
   type = {Book Section}
}