Sentence examples for focal actors from inspiring English sources

Moreover, organized crime groups played an important role in the focal actors' grand schemes and governance activities.

The study will rely on primary and secondary sources of data to identify alters with ties to the focal actors, and use the collected data to inform the research of the overall social embeddedness of the focal actors' networks during their respective selected time frames.

While the texts elucidated direct relationships between the focal actors and the key players in each social category, the 'members of organized crime' category for Dr. Ho was indirect, running through the 'organized-crime affiliates' category.

In light of the resemblances between the two cases, a comparative historical research method is ideal for comparing the two cases and understanding how the focal actors used their relations with state and criminal agents to shape their respective 'gaming empires'.

These results therefore provide empirical support for earlier theoretical work [47] which proposed that seeding or inducing cooperation among focal actors may generate positive effects on the network.

Participation was restricted to a small group of original initiators and some focal actors, viz. the programme leader, some senior academics, PhD candidates and one manager from the practice domain who had the required social entrepreneurial capability [ 43, 44].

Alters were grouped into categories based on similar attributes, relational properties to the focal actor, and shared activities noted in the texts (Martino and Spoto 2006).

Finally, the findings indicate that a new focal actor that is in a position to generate the required intention for change has not emerged and therefore, an industry-wide strategic response is not apparent.

In the 'Nominalist' strategy, boundaries are formed by the researcher in categories based on analytical significance, e.g., relational properties and characteristics alters share with the focal actor (Scott 2013).

A body of literature states that power can be used by the focal actor as an effective tool in coordinating and promoting harmonious relationships, solving conflicts, and, therefore, enhancing the performance of the whole network as well as its individual members.

The ego-centered networks of Mr. Dalitz (Fig. 1) and Dr. Ho (Fig. 2) was created using the primary and secondary data collected and analyzed in this study; perusing the relational dimensions and historical significance from the texts of alters to the focal actor to create the social categories of the ego-centered network.