Power and Centrality: A Family of Measures
American Journal of SociologyPublished 1 March 1987
Phillip Bonacich
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Abstract
Although network centrality is generally assumed to produce power, recent research shows that this is not the case in exchange networks. This paper proposes a generalization of the concept of centrality that accounts for both the usual positive relationship between power and centrality and Cook et al.'s recent exceptional results.
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