Testing multitheoretical, multilevel hypotheses about organizational networks: An analytic framework and empirical example

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Contractor, Noshir S.; Wasserman, Stanley; Faust, Katherine
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Irvine; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2006.21318925
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 681-703
• 关键词: Social networks; logit-models; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; collective action; COMMUNICATION

摘要

Network forms of organization. unlike hierarchies or marketplaces, are agile and are constantly adapting as new links are added and dysfunctional ones dropped. We review some of the theoretical and methodological accomplishments and challenges of contemporary research on organizational networks. We then offer an analytic framework that can be used to specify and statistically test simultaneously multilevel, multitheoretical hypotheses about the structural tendencies of organizational networks. We conclude with an empirical study illustrating some of the capabilities of this framework.