Editorial introduction: The power of words and networks

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According to Freud “words were originally magic and to this day words have retained much of their ancient magical power”. By words, behaviors are transformed and problems are solved. The way we use words reveals our intentions, goals and values. Novel tools for text analysis help understand the magical power of words. This power is multiplied, if it is combined with the study of social networks, i.e. with the analysis of relationships among social units. This special issue of the International Journal of Information Management, entitled “Combining Social Network Analysis and Text Mining: from Theory to Practice”, includes heterogeneous and innovative research at the nexus of text mining and social network analysis. It aims to enrich work at the intersection of these fields, which still lags behind in theoretical, empirical, and methodological foundations. The nine articles accepted for inclusion in this special issue all present methods and tools that have business applications. They are summarized in this editorial introduction.

论文关键词:Social network analysis,Text mining,Discourse analysis,Big data,Business research

论文评审过程:Received 23 October 2019, Revised 24 October 2019, Accepted 24 October 2019, Available online 7 November 2019, Version of Record 24 February 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.10.016