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Social Networks and Organizations
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This book is a straight forward and simple guide to understanding the theory of network analysis. In offering comprehensive review of the literature in light of the use of Social Network Analysis, Kilduff et. al offer a clean and succinct analysis of various network measures as a tool for better understanding organizations. In particular, the book is especially adept in pointing out how measures of social network analysis have commonly been misused and how such measures need to be framed within a study to produce a meaningful results.
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“Also, social network ties are perforce, limited. This is because creating and maintaining social ties takes resources, such as time and cognitive load (Kilduff and Tsai 2003).”
From Enterprise System Implementation and Employee Job Performance: Understanding the Role of Advice Networks1 (2014) · cites this paper as Kilduff and Tsai 2003
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“we see social identification, the primary mechanism through which the processes enumerated in the foregoing sections operate, as foundational to all three forms of SC (cf.Ibarra et al. 2005;Kilduff and Cor-ley 1999;Kilduff and Tsai 2003;Tsai and Ghoshal 1998).”
From The Negative Effects of Social Capital in Organizations: A Review and Extension (2017) · cites this paper as Kilduff and Tsai 2003
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- Kilduff, M., & Tsai, W.
- ORCID
- Kilduff, Martin
- Venue
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
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- 2003
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- FWCI
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Capital and Networks
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Keywords
- social networks, organizations
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