The Strength of Weak Ties

By Mark S. Granovetter. 1973

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LINE: Large-scale Information Network Embedding (2015, methodology): “We categorize the vertices into different groups according to their degrees including (0, 1], [2, 3], [4, 6], [7, 12], [13, 30], [31,+∞), and then evaluate the performance of vertices in different groups.”
Community detection in graphs (2009, background): “Such classification seems to be meaningful in social (Burt, 1976; Freeman, 1977; Granovetter, 1973) and metabolic networks (Guimerà and Amaral, 2005).”
Supervised random walks: predicting and recommending links in social networks (2010, background): “range weak ties help in access to new information [14] (i.”
La comunidad como fuente de apoyo social: evaluación e implicaciones en los ámbitos individual y comunitario (2006, background): “Esta idea de la comunidad como fuente de apoyo está estrechamente vinculada al concepto de “lazos sociales débiles” (Granovetter, 1973), un concepto que cubre un amplio rango de relaciones sociales que se encuentran más allá de la red primaria de relaciones constituida por familiares y amigos…”
A multi-stage model of word-of-mouth influence through viral marketing (2008, background): “The strength of an interpersonal tie is a " combination of the amount of time, the emotional intensity, the intimacy (mutual confiding), and the reciprocal services that characterize the tie " (Granovetter, 1973, p.1361; see also Burt, 1982; Weimann, 1983).”
The Psychology of Careers in Industrial - Organizational Settings: A Critical but Appreciative Analysis (2008, background): “39 tie theory (Granovetter, 1973) postulates that social ties within a group are often strong in the sense that they are intense, frequent, and multi-faceted.”
Network Characteristics and Firm Performance: An Examination of the Relationships in the Context of a Cluster** (2013, unknown): “The closeness and amount of ties indicate the level of acquaintance between network members (Granovetter 1973; Hansen 1999; Uzzi 1996).”
The influence of employee organizational citizenship behavior on customer loyalty (2004, methodology): “Based on previous studies in social network theory ( GraNoveter, 1973”
Differences in social capital between 54 Western European regions (2005, background): “In his view, a common value system based on widely shared structural-hole theory is G ’s (1973) description of the ‘strength of weak ties’. He reasoned norms and values, stabilizes interactions in a social system. Trust is grounded in pre-existing consensus and that access to new informati”