The “New Network Analysis” and Its Application to Organizational Theory and Behavior

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Researchers in a number of the social and behavioral sciences are now routinely using social network analysis to study behavior, and the field of organizational studies is no exception. Beginning with the Hawthorne Studies (Roethlisberger & Dickson, 1939) up through the present, students of formal organizations at both the micro and macro levels have used such concepts as density, connectivity, centrality, cohesion, and social distance in studying interorganizational relations, labor markets, intraorganizational conflict, morale, power, turnover, decision-making, job satisfaction, and a host of other topics. The purpose of this chapter is not to provide an overview of the organizational research done from a ...

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