Women leadership in enterprise social networks A SNA toolkit to foster the emergence of informal leaders in organizations

Abstract

This paper describes a Social Network Analysis toolkit to monitor an Enterprise Social Network and help analyzing informal leadership as a function of social ties and topic discussions. The toolkit has been developed in the context of a regional project, Fiordaliso, funded by Regione Lazio (a region of central Italy) and leaded by Reply, an international network of specialized companies in the field of digital services. One of the aims of this project is to analyze and favor the emergence of female leadership in enterprises.