Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks

by Daniel Brass (Editor), Giuseppe Labianca (Editor), Ajay Mehra (Editor), Daniel Halgin (Editor), Stephen P. Borgatti (Editor)

Overview

Social network analysis has transformed the study of organizations over the past 30 years. Rather than focus on individuals or teams, network scholars view the organization as a nexus of relationships. As its popularity increases, the scholarship is evolving in many directions including new theory on network dynamics, multilevel thinking, multiplex networks, digital networks, instrumental and affective ties, and cross-cultural considerations, in addition to advances in methods and measures, and new organizational applications. This compendium of essays points the way to contemporary issues in organizational social networks. Research in the Sociology of Organizations is an established international, peer-reviewed series that examines cutting edge theoretical, methodological and research issues in organizational studies. The series is especially concerned with specifying the unique contributions of sociological theories and research techniques to the analysis of organizations. In addition to publishing high quality original research, each volume aims to foster debate about the value of new theories and research to the growing international community of organizational studies scholars. Each volume is designed around carefully selected and interesting themes that aim to facilitate the development of new research communities and perspectives within the organizational studies field. All contributions are peer reviewed to ensure high quality, and are individually downloadable through your library website, enabling wide distribution and easy access.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783507511
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	02/07/2014
Series:	Research in the Sociology of Organizations , #40
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.80(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Advisory Board xv

Social Network Research: Confusions, Criticisms, and Controversies Stephen P. Borgatti Daniel J. Brass Daniel S. Halgin 1

Theory

How Organizational Theory Can Help Network Theorizing: Linking Structure and Dynamics Via Cross-Level Analogies Omar Lizardo Melissa Fletcher Pirkey 33

Making Pipes, Using Pipes: How Tie Initiation, Reciprocity, Positive Emotions, and Reputation Create New Organizational Social Capital Wayne Baker 57

Bringing Agency Back into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action Ranjay Gulati Sameer B. Srivastava 73

Toward a Strategic Multiplexity Perspective on Interfirm Networks Andrew Shipilov Stan Li 95

In Either Market or Hierarchy, But Not in Both Simultaneously: Where Strong-Tie Networks are Found in the Economy Ezra W. Zuckerman 111

Brokerage as a Process: Decoupling Third Party Action from Social Network Structure David Obsifeld Stephen P. Borgatti Jason Davis 135

Embedded Brokerage: Hubs Versus Locals Ronald S. Burt Jennifer Merluzzi 161

The Power of the Weak Martin Gargiulo Gokhan Ertug 179

Cohesion, Power, and Fragmentation: Some Theoretical Observations Based on a Historical Case Mark S. Mizruchi 199

Affect in Organizational Networks Tiziana Casciaro 219

Negative Ties in Organizational Networks Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca 239

Methods

The Duality of Organizations and their Attributes: Turning Regression Modeling "Inside Out" Ronald L. Breiger David Melamed 263

A Preliminary Look at Accuracy in Egonets David Krackhardt 277

Do You Know My Friend? Attending to the Accuracy of Egocentered Network Data Bill McEvily 295

Imaginary Worlds: Using Visual Network Scales to Capture Perceptions of Social Networks Ajay Mehra Stephen P. Borgatti Scott Soltis Theresa Floyd Daniel S. Halgin Brandon Ofem Virginie Lopez-Kidwell 315

The Two-Pipe Problem: Analysing and Theorizing About 2-Mode Networks Antoine Vernet Martin Kilduff Ammon Salter 337

Applications

Perceived Organizational Identification and Prototypicality as Origins of Knowledge Exchange Networks Alberto Monti Giuseppe Soda 357

Appropriateness and Structure in Organizations: Secondary Socialization Through Dynamics of Advice Networks and Weak Culture Emmanuel Imzega 381

The Network Dynamics of Social Status: Problems and Possibilities Alessandro Lomi Vanina J. Torló 403

Corporate Social Capital in Chinese Guanxi Culture Yanjie Bian Lei Zhang 421

The Causal Status of Social Capital in Labor Markets Roberto M. Fernandez Roman V. Galperin 445

Online Communities: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Network Research Peter Groenewegen Christine Moser 463

Networking Scholars in a Networked Organization Barry Wellman Dimitrina Dimitrova Zack Hayat Guang Ying Mo Lilia Smale 479