Dyad and Triad Census Analysis of Crisis Communication Network

Abstract

have been found very useful in analyzing structural properties of social networks. This study aims to explore crisis communication network by following dyad and triad census analysis approach to investigate the association of mi- cro-level communication patterns with organizational crisis. This study further tests hypothesis related to the process of data generation and tendency of the structural pattern of transitivity using dyad and triad census output. The changing communication network at Enron Corporation during the period of its crisis is analyzed in this study. Significant dif- ferences in the presence of different isomorphism classes or micro-level patterns of both dyad and triad census are no- ticed in crisis and non-crisis period network of Enron email corpus. It is also noticed that crisis communication network shows more transitivity comp