Editorial

摘要

The notion of social network and the methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA) have attracted considerable attention of academic researchers and industry practitioners due to the ability to investigate social structures and relationships made of individuals or organisations. Although SNA has found applications in a wide spectrum of problem domains, including psychology, sociology, politics, and public policy, its applications in IT have been sparse. This special issues calls for research that either extends SNA theories into the IT domain or utilises SNA tools and methods to study various IT issues such as knowledge management, business process management, human resource management, outsourcing management, business intelligence, project management and virtual teams, and social network sites.