This paper describes a Social Network Analysis toolkit to monitor an\ud
Enterprise Social Network and help analyzing informal leadership as a function\ud
of social ties and topic discussions. The toolkit has been developed in the\ud
context of a regional project, Fiordaliso, funded by Regione Lazio (a region of\ud
central Italy) and leaded by Reply, an international network of specialized\ud
companies in the field of digital services
The present study is concerned with the analysis of women’s leadership in a less formal work environment, such as an enterprise social network. Our aim is to answer the following research questions: RQ1: Are Enterprise Social Networks a conductive environment to support the emergence of women informal leadership? RQ2: If answer to RQ1 is positive, do women actually exploit this opportunity?
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