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Communication sources within the ram sheep purchase network

Chris Thomas and Derek Nind

The paper was published at the 17th IMP-conference in Oslo, Norway in 2001.

Within the ram sheep purchase network, personal and industry source ofcommunication are considered the most important. The concept of triads appearsto be a simple and operational one but the level of connectivity betweenorganisations makes it difficult to break down the network of relationships thatexists between these organisations into this simplistic form of network, a net.