This article examines how different personality types create and benefit from social networks in organizations. Using data a 116-member high-technology firm, we tested self-monitoring orientation network position related to work performance. First, chameleon-like high self-monitors were more likely than true-to-themselves low occupy central positions networks. Second, for (but not low) self-monitors, longer service the organization occupancy of strategically advantageous positions. Third,...

We challenge the claimed incommensurability of individualism and structuralism by showing how a cognitive theory can guide use structural methods. According to balance theory, there is str...

Demography research rarely examines the black box within which cognitive diversity of top management team is assumed to affect firm performance. Using data from 35 simulated firms run by a total 159 managers attending executive education programs, current tested several hypotheses concerned with (a) relationship between demographic and (b) reciprocal effects Results showed that members high-performing teams tended preserve multiple interpretations early in team's life cycle, but they moved...

The role of individual action in the enactment structures constraint and opportunity has proved to be particularly elusive for network researchers. We propose three frontiers future research that zoom back forth between collective levels analysis. First, we consider how dilemmas concerning social capital can reconciled. Actors striving reap maximal advantages may benefit or detract from good; investigating these trade-offs, argue, will advance our understanding learning knowledge processes...

Using distinctiveness theory, this research showed that the relative rarity of a group in social context tended to promote members' use as basis for shared identity and interaction. Relative majority members, racial minorities women master business administration cohort were more likely make friendship choices within-group. The marginalization network resulted both from exclusionary pressures minority individuals' own preferences same-race friends. By contrast, than their woman

Given the growing popularity of social network perspective across diverse organizational subject areas, this review examines coherence research tradition (in terms leading ideas from which diversity new derives) and appraises current directions controversies. The at heart program include: an emphasis on relations between actors; embeddedness exchange in relations; assumption that dyadic relationships do not occur isolation, but rather form a complex structural pattern connectivity cleavage...

Using data from 138 independent samples, we meta-analytically examined three research questions concerning the roles of personality and network position in organizations. First, how do different characteristics—self-monitoring Big Five traits—relate to indegree centrality brokerage, two most studied structurally advantageous positions organizational networks? Second, brokerage compare explaining job performance career success? Third, these variables relate work outcomes? Our results show...

Given the growing popularity of social network perspective across diverse organizational subject areas, this review examines coherence research tradition (in terms leading ideas from which diversity new derives) and appraises current directions controversies. The at heart program include: an emphasis on relations between actors; embeddedness exchange in relations; assumption that dyadic relationships do not occur isolation, but rather form a complex structural pattern connectivity cleavage...

This paper focuses on an emergent debate about the microfoundations of organizational social networks. We consider three theoretical positions: individual agency perspective suggesting that people, through their characteristics and cognitions, shape networks; a network patterning networks, structural configuration, form people; coevolution in idiosyncrasies, differentiated structures, coevolve. conclude attitudes, behaviors, outcomes cannot be fully understood without considering structuring...

Under what circumstances are individuals' perceptions of friendship relations shaped by the balance schema? Using data from 4 organizations varying in size 21 to 33 members, authors investigated how ego's perception social distance ego alter affected proportion alter's friendships perceived as balanced. Balance involves both (a) reciprocated between 2 people, and (b) transitive triplets, which friends a person themselves friends. Graphical regression analyses supported composite curvilinear...

This study tracked 139 graduates of the same master's business administration program for five years and demonstrated significant main effects personality variable self-monitoring on care...

Drawing selectively from the often countervailing currents of postmodernism, we argue for an epistemology that combines a skepticism toward metanarrative with commitment to rigorous standards enquiry in pursuit radical challenges accepted knowledge. We discuss five problematics concerned normal science, truth, representation, style, and generalizability, provide examples postmodern approaches classic data sets, local knowledge, eclectic sources, counterintuitive. In this article seek provoke...

Instead of paradigmatic unity, we call for progressive theory development from a set core concepts (Lakatos, 1970) comprising primacy relations, ubiquity embeddedness, social utility connections, and structural patterning life. Organizational network research can capture complexity distinctiveness individuals networks in terms mutual constitution change. The goal is not to delineate small puzzles whose outcomes are predetermined but signal bold ideas concerning new phenomena.

Despite growing interest in social network brokerage, its psychological antecedents have been neglected. One possibility is that brokerage relates to self-monitoring personality orientation. High self-monitors, relative low adapting their self-presentations the demands of different groups, may occupy positions as brokers between disconnected worlds. For 162 Korean expatriate entrepreneurs a Canadian urban area, results showed those high tended direct roles within community--in terms...

Organizational culture is often described as a management control device, but this view obscures the importance of informal social interactions for emergence and modification culture. We elicited seven cultural dimensions used by employees to predict make sense behavior patterns others in an entrepreneurial firm. Forty‐seven key rated each other on these dimensions. Consistent with predictions, friends, relative nonfriends, made similar attributions about fellow across The pattern results...

This article presents an editorial expressing some observations on the theory publishing process in hope of reducing mystery surrounding development and publication. Theory papers succeed if they offer important original ideas. The route to good leads not through gaps literature but engagement with problems world that you find personally interesting. author offers cautions for writers.

Relational pluralism exists when actors maintain multiple kinds of relationships with one another and develop identities as a result. The outcomes relational can include greater flexibility in building network ties, more stable exchange relationships, the ability to adopt tailored innovations. We typology examine both positive negative features inside across organizations. conclude discussion future directions for research.