Exploring interaction patterns of cohesive subgroups during organizational disintegration

What is it about?

We suggest that changes in the interactions patterns of communications networks have implications for exploring the phases of organisational disintegration. We develop a set of criteria for measuring the phases of organisational disintegration and apply that to Enron e-mail communications data for testing our preliminary assumptions. We explore the roles of cohesive subgroups (or cliques) and the changes in the composition of clique structure during organisational disintegration. Our preliminary assumptions that drive the work are as follows: (i) the number of cliques increase during organisational disintegration; (ii) structural changes occur in the composition of clique structure and its membership (i.e., we see more contributing actors for the disintegration state clique structure than during the normal state of an organisation).

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