期刊
SOCIAL NETWORKS
卷 43, 期 -, 页码 149-161出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2015.04.008
关键词
Network advantage; Structural holes; Management
资金
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
- MaxPo research institute in Paris
Holes in social structure are variably reinforced by the social organization around the hole. The more reinforced the hole, the greater the difficulty in bridging it, but the more likely a successful bridge will carry information novel, and so potentially valuable, to people on the other side. To study how reinforcement varies with access to structural holes, and the achievement associated with access, I propose a measure of access to reinforced structural holes (RSH), and present results predicting achievement in an integrated banker organization and a balkanized supply-chain organization. In both study populations, the people who have access to structural holes also have access to reinforced structural holes, and all measures of access have a statistically significant association with achievement. However, there is no consistent prediction advantage from incorporating reinforcement in measures of access to structural holes. The reinforced-holes measure predicts compensation better or as well as network constraint and betweenness, but is weaker or no better than a count of nonredundant contacts. I do not infer from the results a rank-order of alternative measures so much as substitutability. I expect achievement to be associated with access to structural holes, but I expect the association to vary across alternative measures depending on how achievement is achieved in a specific population. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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