More research is needed about how new design elements specific for web questionnaires can motivate respondents to fill out network questions properly.
The focus of this article is on foresight aspects; company-level strategic and value-network questions are left to other publications.
The advantage Facebook could have in the Q&A space is that to the extent that you find answers from your extended social network, questions can become the start of deeper conversations and spur new relationships.
The full questionnaire consisted of four demographic questions (sex, familiarity with game theory, career stage and perceived relative position in the group seniority hierarchy) and fourteen network questions.
Network questions provide response data in the form of matrices, containing either binary (yes/no, 1/0) or ordinal data (e.g. reflecting level of friendship or trust, frequency of interaction etc).
Of the remaining 1963232%) respondents to the survey, 164 completed at least one network question [26% participation, 116 completed all network questions (19%)], and 32 responded to no social network questions.
Response rates on the communication networks and advice network questions were highly correlated (0.97, p < 0.001).
The second section of the survey asked social network questions (Table 1).
Communication and influence amongst health professionals was measured through inclusion of social network questions.
