The effect of perceptions of exploration and exploitation work activities on dynamic organizational knowledge networks

IF 2.9 2区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Andrew Parker , Christian Waldstrøm , Stefano Tasselli
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We examine how perceptions of work activities regarding exploration (i.e., pursuit of knowledge for innovation) and exploitation (i.e., pursuit of knowledge for maximizing the benefits of existing resources) affects how individuals change their knowledge networks. We theorize how network choices regarding dynamic micro-network mechanisms of tie change and stability, reciprocity, and closure are influenced by perceptions of exploration and exploitation work activity. We test our ideas in a dataset comprising 135 employees at three time points in an R&D unit using the actor-based Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis (SIENA) modeling framework. We find that employees with perceptions of high versus low exploration work activity are more likely to change their network ties, make reciprocal knowledge ties, and have open triadic knowledge networks. Employees with perceptions of high versus low exploitation work activity also are more likely to change their network ties, however, they prefer unreciprocated knowledge ties, and closed triadic knowledge networks.
探索和开发工作活动感知对动态组织知识网络的影响
我们研究了关于探索(即为创新而追求知识)和利用(即为使现有资源的利益最大化而追求知识)的工作活动的观念如何影响个人改变其知识网络的方式。我们理论化了关于联系变化和稳定、互惠和封闭的动态微网络机制的网络选择如何受到勘探和开发工作活动的感知的影响。我们使用基于参与者的实证网络分析模拟调查(SIENA)建模框架,在研发部门的三个时间点的135名员工组成的数据集中测试了我们的想法。我们发现,与低勘探工作活动相比,高勘探工作活动感知的员工更有可能改变他们的网络联系,建立互惠的知识联系,并拥有开放的三元知识网络。感知高剥削与低剥削工作活动的员工也更有可能改变他们的网络联系,然而,他们更喜欢无回报的知识联系和封闭的三元知识网络。
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Social Networks
Social Networks Multiple-
CiteScore
5.90
自引率
12.90%
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118
期刊介绍: Social Networks is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly. It provides a common forum for representatives of anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science and other disciplines who share an interest in the study of the empirical structure of social relations and associations that may be expressed in network form. It publishes both theoretical and substantive papers. Critical reviews of major theoretical or methodological approaches using the notion of networks in the analysis of social behaviour are also included, as are reviews of recent books dealing with social networks and social structure.
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