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Managers' Network Change And Their Promotability During A Merger, Wookje Sung
Managers' Network Change And Their Promotability During A Merger, Wookje Sung
Theses and Dissertations--Management
I investigate whether cross-functional or cross-organizational networking following a large corporate merger and acquisition improves managers’ career outcomes. Previous research on networks and career success has focused on stable organizational environments, finding that large, open networks with many structural holes are most advantageous because of superior information benefits and control power, while closed networks provide redundant information that is unhelpful career-wise. However, I suggest that while dense, closed networks formed within knowledge (functional) or identity (legacy organization) boundaries might be detrimental to executives’ future promotability, closed networks are helpful if they are created across those boundaries. These ties help to …
How Organizational Turbulence Shapes The Broker Vision Advantage, Jesse Fagan
How Organizational Turbulence Shapes The Broker Vision Advantage, Jesse Fagan
Theses and Dissertations--Management
Research on social networks has established that those who bridge the gaps between dense social groups (i.e. structural holes) are granted a “vision advantage” compared to those who are embedded in dense groups. A common explanation for the advantage is that bridging a structural hole provides the broker with access to diverse information. What is less clear is how this process performs when the organizational context is turbulent. I propose that in a turbulent organizational context, when the organization is experiencing dramatic changes, employees benefit less from building a repertoire of diverse information and instead benefit more from adopting socially …
Gender And Networking: Building And Benefiting From High Status Ties In The Workplace, Meredith L. Woehler
Gender And Networking: Building And Benefiting From High Status Ties In The Workplace, Meredith L. Woehler
Theses and Dissertations--Management
While organizations have significantly reduced the overt and intentional forms of sex discrimination that impeded women’s careers in the past, a great deal of research suggests women continue to face informal barriers in the workplace. One such arena in which women tend to be disadvantaged is in their workplace networks. In many ways, men and women have similar networks, yet women are less likely than their male counterparts to have personal relationships with high status coworkers. Scholars have long suggested that these strategic connections are valuable and may be especially beneficial to or necessary for women. Networking has long been …