David Krackhardt

About

David Krackhardt is a Professor of Organizations at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and holds a joint appointment at the Tepper School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1984 and his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. His research focuses on social structure, organizational behavior, and the role of social ties within groups. Krackhardt has contributed to understanding how friendship ties influence retaliation and organizational dynamics, as evidenced by his publication on Simmelian friendship ties in Small Group Research. He is actively involved in academic service, serving as the editor of the Journal of Social Structure since 1999 and as an area editor for Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory since 1995. Krackhardt is also a featured faculty member for Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business Executive Education, specifically in the Leadership as a Daily Challenge program. His work emphasizes the intersection of social networks, organizational behavior, and leadership, contributing to both scholarly research and executive education.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engineering
• Social Science
• Epistemology
• Computer network
• Medicine
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Violence in the “balance”: a structural analysis of how rivals, allies, and third-parties shape inter-gang violence

  Global Crime · 2019-07-02 · 58 citations

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  This paper explores the role of local structural conditions that facilitate or hinder violence when enmity is present between parties, by examining shooting-involved violence among street gangs in Long Beach, California. Using structural balance theory, this paper investigates whether certain triadic structures in which two rival gangs i and j are related to a third gang is associated with the levels of violence that i will inflict upon j. Based on multiple regression quadratic assignment proced…

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• Online Knowledge Communities: Breaking or Sustaining Knowledge Silos?

  Production and Operations Management · 2019-08-24 · 42 citations

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  Effective operations require the coordination of distributed knowledge. Division and distance across teams and specialties form barriers to communication, creating insulated pockets of knowledge along geographic and specialty borders. Such fragmentation can hamper a company's ability to fully utilize existing knowledge, potentially hurting its productivity in the long run. As such, many companies have created internal online knowledge communities, in which employees can exchange solutions in var…

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• Networks in the Public Sector

  2022 · 23 citations

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  Networks contain complex patterns of dependency and require multiple levels of analysis to explain their formation, structure, and outcomes. In this Element, the authors develop the Multilevel Network Framework. The framework serves as (i) a conceptual tool to think more deeply about network dynamics, (ii) a research tool to assist in connecting data, theory, and empirical models, and (iii) a diagnostic tool to analyze and categorize bodies of research. The authors then systematically review the…

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• Do your friends stress you out? A field study of the spread of stress through a community network.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2023 · 18 citations

  In this study, we seek to understand how stress changes in dynamic social systems. Where prior work on the interpersonal transmission of stress focused on pairs of individuals and small groups, we adopt a network perspective to investigate how the distribution of stress in an individual's social environment influences their stress appraisal process. We conducted a 6-month longitudinal study of 315 early to midcareer adults in professional master's programs as they encountered the stress of every…

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• Transitivity correlation: A descriptive measure of network transitivity

  Network Science · 2019-09-01 · 5 citations

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  Abstract This paper proposes that common measures for network transitivity, based on the enumeration of transitive triples, do not reflect the theoretical statements about transitivity they aim to describe. These statements are often formulated as comparative conditional probabilities, but these are not directly reflected by simple functions of enumerations. We think that a better approach is obtained by considering the probability of a tie between two randomly drawn nodes, conditional on select…

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Frequent coauthors

• Martín Kilduff

  25 shared

• Matthew D. Weaver

  14 shared

• Kathleen M. Carley

  Carnegie Mellon University

  13 shared

• Donald M. Yealy

  UPMC Health System

  12 shared

• David Dekker

  Heriot-Watt University

  12 shared

• P. Daniel Patterson

  University of Pittsburgh

  11 shared

• Miguel Godinho de Matos

  Universidade Católica Portuguesa

  9 shared

• Patrick Doreian

  9 shared

Awards & honors

• TEPPER PHD THESIS AWARD: HERB SIMON (2005 - 2006)

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