The changing educational landscape requires new organizational frameworks to
understand how schools and universities make sense of and respond to broader institutional …

Research on ethnic segregation in schools regularly assumed that ethnic homophily—the
tendency to befriend same-ethnic peers, above and beyond other mechanisms of tie …

Organ trafficking has been receiving more attention in recent years as its association with
transnational crime organizations became evident. Most of the academic studies available …

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the informal sector are key in determining
economic growth, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. However, data on the …

Current scientometrics and indices are a way to map and evaluate key research topics and
researchers' performance, which facilitate networking and innovations. However, several …

Given increased political polarization and racial tension in the wake of the 2016 presidential
election in the United States, this study examines dropped ties in personal networks at that …

This study explores variation in composition and strength of close friendship ties across
timing and contexts of tie formation. Analyzing South Korean survey data and comparing it …

In leadership research, it has proven useful to understand leadership as a relational
phenomenon and to conceptualize leadership structures as networks of leader-member ties …

Local fish markets play a crucial role in meeting local and regional demand for seafood.
However, the underlying social and local processes determining price formation in these …

Relational ethnographies presume conceptual emphasis on relations over objects engaged
in those interactions. In that sense, social relations are not viewed as external and static …