Keystone sector methodology:network analysis comparative study



REAL


Keystone sector methodology applied to Portugal
actors not including the actor
i. In other words, if actor i wants to contact actor j, actor k
must be used as an intermediary, which gives him a certain responsibility to actors i and
j. If we count all the minimum paths, which pass through k, we have the measure of his
power in the network. To test these positions we applied both the Closeness and
Betweeness UCINET calculations. The results are showed in Table 4:

Table 4 - Closeness and Betweenness

______________________Closeness______________________

______________________Betweenness______________________

Mean St Dev Min    Max

Mean    St Dev     Min

Max

61.72    12.57   52.23    100.0___________________

63.89     151.9_________0________

842___________________

INF

- Private Construction firm

- Middle School

- Hospital

- Main Church

- Public Telecommunication Firm

- Political Party

- Private Religious Solidarity Org._____________________

-Local Authority

-University

-Institute of Foreign Commerce

- Public Employment Center

-Middle School

Mean St Dev Min    Max

Mean    St Dev     Min

Max

53.4    7.55     50.62    100.0___________________

39.8       125.8________0________

821___________________

MON

- Private Construction firm

- Insurance Company

-Private Construction Firm

-Textile (innovative) Firm

-Textile Entrepreneur Association

-University________________________________________________

Mean St Dev Min    Max

Mean    St Dev     Min

Max

62.7    14.85    53.59    100.0___________________

53.5      130.56_________0________

669__________________

ORG

- Student University Association

- YMCA

- Private Transportation Firm

- Public Employment Center

- Public Health Center

- Transit Police

- Hospital

- Main Church

- Political party

- Political Party___________________________________________

- Public Health Center

- Public Inst. Of Employment

- Student University Association

- Local Authority

-Retailer Entrepreneur Association.

* Slightly less than the 1Std+mean value.

Bold for ‘at least 2 top places in all’.

The higher the value of Closeness, the shortest is the path from the entity to
connect other entities in the community. In the present case we can say that the Private
Construction Firm reaches the most other agents with the fewest steps in the Money
matrix (more than 1Std higher than the mean). This result is consistent with the
hypothesis of the huge increase in construction activity and the housing boom over the
last decade.

The higher the value of Betweeness, the more potential an actor has to control
third-party relationships. Again, the Private Construction Firm in Money matrix, but
also the Local Authority in Information and the Public Health Center for Organization
matrices.

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