Networks, Diversity, and Productivity: The Social Capital of Corporate R&D Teams
Organization Science
Geography, Networks, and Knowledge Flow
Organization Science
Social and Economic Networks
The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure
Organization Science
The Coevolution of Network Ties and Perceptions of Team Psychological Safety
Organization Science
Scalable analysis for large social networks: the data-aware mean-field approach
SocInfo'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Informatics
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An extensive body of knowledge exists on network outcomes and on how network structures may contribute to the creation of outcomes at different levels of analysis, but less attention has been paid to understanding how and why organizational networks emerge, evolve, and change. Improved understanding of network dynamics is important for several reasons, perhaps the most critical being that the understanding of network outcomes is only partial without an appreciation of the genesis of the network structures that resulted in such outcomes. To provide a context for the papers in this special issue, and with the broader goal of furthering network dynamics research, we present a framework that begins by discussing the meaning and role of network dynamics and goes on to identify the drivers and key dimensions of network change as well as the role of time in this process. We conclude with theoretical and methodological issues that researchers need to address in this domain.