FRONT COVER -- CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ADVISORY BOARD -- THEORY -- HOW ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY CAN HELP NETWORK THEORIZING: LINKING STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS VIA CROSS-LEVEL ANALOGIES -- INTRODUCTION -- ANALOGICAL THEORIZING -- AGE DEPENDENCE AND LIABILITY OF NEWNESS OF RELATIONSHIPS -- RELATIONAL IMPRINTING AND THE HAZARDS OF REDEFINITION -- CONTINGENCY BETWEEN TIE STRENGTH AND CULTURAL CONTENT -- CODE-IDENTITY THEORY AND THE STRENGTH OF UNIPLEX TIES -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- MAKING PIPES, USING PIPES: HOW TIE INITIATION, RECIPROCITY, POSITIVE EMOTIONS, AND REPUTATION CREATE NEW ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL -- INTRODUCTION -- OLD VERSUS NEW ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL -- ACTIONS AND MECHANISMS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- BRINGING AGENCY BACK INTO NETWORK RESEARCH: CONSTRAINED AGENCY AND NETWORK ACTION -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- TOWARD A FRAMEWORK OF CONSTRAINED AGENCY -- IDEAL TYPES OF CONSTRAINED AGENCY -- CONSTRAINED AGENCY AND NETWORK ACTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TOWARD A STRATEGIC MULTIPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE ON INTERFIRM NETWORKS -- STRATEGIC MULTIPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- IN EITHER MARKET OR HIERARCHY, BUT NOT IN BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY: WHERE STRONG-TIE NETWORKS ARE FOUND IN THE ECONOMY -- ENDOGENIZING EMBEDDEDNESS: WHERE ARE STRONG TIES MORE COMMON? -- TENSIONS IN NEED OF RESOLUTION -- A PROPOSED RESOLUTION: FOUR STEPS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- BROKERAGE AS A PROCESS: DECOUPLING THIRD PARTY ACTION FROM SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURE -- THE CONFLATION OF SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURE AND BROKERAGE -- A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF BROKERAGE.

THREE STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS TO BROKERAGE ACTION -- HETEROGENEOUS BROKERAGE NETWORK STRUCTURES: AN EXPANDED VIEW OF BROKERAGE INCORPORATING MULTIPLEXITY AND VARIANCE IN ALTER ATTRIBUTES -- IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- EMBEDDED BROKERAGE: HUBS VERSUS LOCALS -- BROKERAGE EMBEDDED IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL ORGANIZATION -- EVIDENCE OF CLOSE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN STATUS AND HOLES -- EVIDENCE OF COMPLEMENTARY ADVANTAGE FROM STATUS AND HOLES -- CONCLUSION: HUBS VERSUS LOCALS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- THE POWER OF THE WEAK -- INTRODUCTION -- SECURING THE CONTROL OF VALUABLE RESOURCES -- EMBEDDING DEPENDENCE INTO SOCIAL NETWORKS -- THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF EMBEDDING STRATEGIES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- COHESION, POWER, AND FRAGMENTATION: SOME THEORETICAL OBSERVATIONS BASED ON A HISTORICAL CASE -- BACKGROUND -- THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN CORPORATE NETWORK -- COHESION, SUCCESS, AND FRAGMENTATION -- THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE AMERICAN CORPORATE ELITE -- EXOGENOUS SHOCKS, AND THE ELITE'S RESPONSE -- A PYRRHIC VICTORY? -- IMPLICATIONS FOR NETWORK THEORY -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- AFFECT IN ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS -- INTRODUCTION -- AFFECT AS A RELATIONAL CONSTRUCT -- OUTCOMES OF RELATIONAL AFFECT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NEGATIVE TIES IN ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS -- DEFINITION(S) -- NETWORK DYNAMICS -- PERSONALITY ANTECEDENTS -- CONSEQUENCES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- METHODS -- THE DUALITY OF ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES: TURNING REGRESSION MODELLING "INSIDE OUT" -- MOTIVATIONS: TURNING REGRESSION MODELING "INSIDE OUT" -- A USUAL REGRESSION MODEL FOR CBRN ACTIVITY OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS -- REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS AS SUMS ACROSS ORGANIZATIONS -- MAPPING THE REGRESSION FIELD -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.

A PRELIMINARY LOOK AT ACCURACY IN EGONETS -- EGO DISTORTIONS -- FEATURE INFERENCE ERROR -- REFERENCES -- DO YOU KNOW MY FRIEND? ATTENDING TO THE ACCURACY OF EGOCENTERED NETWORK DATA -- AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF ACCURACY IN REPORTING EGOCENTERED NETWORK DATA -- ACCURACY FINDINGS -- INACCURACY FINDINGS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- IMAGINARY WORLDS: USING VISUAL NETWORK SCALES TO CAPTURE PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS -- PICTURING NETWORK PERCEPTIONS -- VISUAL NETWORK SCALES -- PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- THE TWO-PIPE PROBLEM: ANALYSING AND THEORIZING ABOUT 2-MODE NETWORKS -- THE TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OF 2-MODE NETWORKS -- BUILDING A 2-MODE NETWORK THEORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- APPLICATIONS -- PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION AND PROTOTYPICALITY AS ORIGINS OF KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORKS -- INTRODUCTION -- ANALYSIS AND RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- APPROPRIATENESS AND STRUCTURE IN ORGANIZATIONS: SECONDARY SOCIALIZATION THROUGH DYNAMICS OF ADVICE NETWORKS AND WEAK CULTURE -- APPROPRIATENESS JUDGMENTS AND STRUCTURE -- DYNAMICS OF ALIGNMENT AND SYNCHRONIZATION: COEVOLUTION OF APPROPRIATENESS JUDGMENT AND POSITION IN ADVICE NETWORKS -- ILLUSTRATION: ALIGNMENT OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN A COURTHOUSE -- REVISITING SECONDARY SOCIALIZATION IN ORGANIZATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE NETWORK DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL STATUS: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFERENCE AND THE RELATIONAL BASIS OF STATUS -- SOCIAL STATUS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CORPORATE SOCIAL CAPITAL IN CHINESE GUANXI CULTURE -- RELATIONAL APPROACH TO CORPORATE PERFORMANCE.

CORPORATE SOCIAL CAPITAL WITHIN THE GUANXI CULTURE -- PERSISTENT AND CONTINGENT EFFECTS OF GUANXI-BASED CORPORATE SOCIAL CAPITAL -- A COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH AGENDA -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- THE CAUSAL STATUS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN LABOR MARKETS -- NETWORKS FROM THE DEMAND SIDE OF THE LABOR MARKET -- CAUSAL OR SPURIOUS? -- AN ILLUSTRATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- ONLINE COMMUNITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL NETWORK RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION -- RESEARCH ON ONLINE COMMUNITIES -- ONLINE TIE FORMATION -- STRUCTURES IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES -- CONCLUSION AND RESEARCH AGENDA -- REFERENCES -- NETWORKING SCHOLARS IN A NETWORKED ORGANIZATION -- THE PROLIFERATION OF SCHOLARLY NETWORKS -- THE NAVEL STUDY: IMPLICATIONS FOR NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS -- RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NETWORKED ORGANIZATION -- STRUCTURE IN THE NETWORKED ORGANIZATION -- NETWORKED WORK IN THE NETWORKED OPERATING SYSTEM -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.