Interpersonal Networks in Organizations: Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and Culture

by Martin Kilduff , David Krackhardt

• ISBN13: 9780521685580
• ISBN10: 0521685583
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organizational crises, organizational culture, and other major organizational behavior topics. It offers a new direction for organizational behavior theory and research by drawing from social network ideas. Across diverse research topics, the authors pursue an integrated focus on social ties both as they are represented in the cognitions of individuals and as they operate as constraints and opportunities in organizational settings. The authors bring their 20 years worth of research experience together to provide a programmatic social network approach to understanding the internal functioning of organizations. By focusing a distinctive research lens on interpersonal networks, they attempt to discover the keys to the whole realm of organizational behavior through the social network approach.

Author Biography

Martin Kilduff is the Kleberg/King Ranch Centennial Professor of Management at the University of Texas at Austin David Krackhardt is Professor of Organizations at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Perceiving Networks
A Network Approach to Leadership	p. 13
An Analysis of the Internal Market for Reputation in Organizations	p. 39
Systematic Biases in Network Perception	p. 59
Effects of Network Accuracy on Individuals' Perceived Power	p. 84
The Psychology of Network Differences
Social Structure and Decision Making in an MBA Cohort	p. 101
The Social Networks of Low and High Self-Monitors	p. 131
Centrality in the Emotion Helping Network: An Interactionist Approach	p. 157
Network Dynamics and Organizational Culture
Network Perceptions and Turnover in Three Organizations	p. 181
Organizational Crises	p. 208
The Control of Organizational Diversity	p. 236
Future Directions	p. 259
References	p. 275
Index	p. 305
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