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Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling of Relationships Among Managers of a Firm

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Data Analysis and Decision Support

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Relationships among managers of a firm were analyzed. Each manager responded who goes to whom for help or advice for work-related problems. Resulting responses constitute a set of matrices, each comes from a manager. Each matrix is transformed to a matrix of geodesic distances from row to column managers. The set of geodesic distance matrices was analyzed by the asymmetric multidimensional scaling. The result represents the hierarchical structure of the firm. The dimensions for symmetric relationships represent differences among departments, and those for asymmetric relationships represent differences within and between supervisors.

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  1. School of Social Relations, Rikkyo (St. Paul’s) University, 171-8501 Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Akinori Okada

  2. School of Management and Information Sciences, Tama University, 206-0022 Tama, Tokyo, Japan

    Tadashi Imaizumi

  3. Department of Human Sciences, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 804-8550 Tobata, Kitakyushu, Japan

    Hiroshi Inoue

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  1. Institute of Business Administration and Economics, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 1, 03046, Cottbus, Germany

    Daniel Baier (Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management) (Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management)

  2. Department of Business Administration and Economics, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Reinhold Decker (Chair of Marketing) (Chair of Marketing)

  3. Computer Based New Media Group (CGNM), Institute for Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 51, 79110, Freiburg, Germany

    Lars Schmidt-Thieme

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Okada, A., Imaizumi, T., Inoue, H. (2005). Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling of Relationships Among Managers of a Firm. In: Baier, D., Decker, R., Schmidt-Thieme, L. (eds) Data Analysis and Decision Support. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28397-8_12

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