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Co-evolution of the global research collaboration network and the performance of nations in science and technology
Travis A. Whetsell, Jeongyoon Jane Yang
Researchers have long suspected that international research collaboration (IRC) and scientific and technological (S&T) performance are subject to reciprocal causality, yet the endo…
Network Inference in Public Administration: Questions, Challenges, and Models of Causality
Travis A. Whetsell, Michael D. Siciliano
Descriptive and inferential social network analysis has become common in public administration studies of network governance and management. A large literature has developed in two…
Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration: A Longitudinal Analysis of Global Network Evolution
Travis A. Whetsell, Jen Sidorova
The topic of academic freedom has come to the fore as nations around the world experience a wave of democratic backsliding. Institutions of higher education are often targets of au…
Democratic Governance and International Research Collaboration: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Global Science Network
Travis A. Whetsell
The democracy-science relationship has traditionally been examined through philosophical conjecture and single country case studies. There remains limited global scale empirical re…
Can We Talk? An Exploratory Study of Gender and Network Ties in a Local Government Setting
Leisha DeHart-Davis, Nicole Humphrey, Travis A. Whetsell
We explore the influence of gender and formal organizational status on the formation of discussion ties. Network data, gathered through surveying employees from a municipal organiz…
Network Interventions: Applying Network Science for Pragmatic Action in Public Administration and Policy
Michael D. Siciliano, Travis A. Whetsell
Public management and policy scholars have engaged in extensive development of theory and empirical study of networks and collaborative systems of governance. This scholarship has…
Centrally Administered State-Owned Enterprises' Engagement in China's Public-Private Partnerships: A Social Network Analysis
Min Xiong, Travis A. Whetsell, Jerry Zhirong Zhao +1
A salient characteristic of China's public-private partnerships (PPPs) is the deep involvement of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those administered by the central/nat…
Formal Hierarchies and Informal Networks: How Organizational Structure Shapes Information Search in Local Government
Travis A. Whetsell, Alexander Kroll, Leisha DeHart-Davis
Attention to informal communication networks within public organizations has grown in recent decades. While research has documented the role of individual cognition and social stru…
Government as Network Catalyst: Accelerating Self-Organization in a Strategic Industry
Travis A. Whetsell, Michael D. Siciliano, Kaila G. K. Witkowski +1
Governments have long standing interests in preventing market failures and enhancing innovation in strategic industries. Public policy regarding domestic technology is critical to…
International Research Collaboration: Novelty, Conventionality, and Atypicality in Knowledge Recombination
Caroline S. Wagner, Travis A. Whetsell, Satyam Mukherjee
Research articles produced through international collaboration are more highly cited than other work, but are they also more novel? Using measures developed by Uzzi et al. (2013),…