The Strength of Weak Ties You Can Trust: The Mediating Role of Trust in Effective Knowledge Transfer

By Daniel Z. Levin, Rob Cross. Management Sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Prosocial Lies: When Deception Breeds Trust (2014, unknown): “The decision to loan money or property to another person, the decision to rely on someone for emotional support, and the decision to share sensitive information with someone reflect benevolence-based trust (e.g., Currall & Judge, 1995; Glaeser et al., 2000; Levin & Cross, 2004; McAllister, 1995).”
When Competence Is Irrelevant: The Role of Interpersonal Affect in Task-Related Ties (2008, background): “…competence, and related constructs, such as affect-based trust and cognition-based trust, have additive effects on task-related interactions is well established (Roethlisberger and Dickson, 1939; Homans, 1950; Bales, 1950; Slater, 1955; McAllister, 1995; Hinds et al., 2000; Levin and Cross, 2004).”
Building Futures or Stealing Secrets? (2007, background): “So, weak ties have the potential to inject new ideas into the network, they also represent a wide range of expertise that can be selectively utilized for as long as they have ‘reachability’ in that they are linked by direct or indirect pathways to facilitate communication (Aldrich and Zimmer, 1986; ”
How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work (2009, unknown): “This is not only because novel (and thus potentially more valuable) information is more likely to be gained from people outside our daily activities [9,10], but also that rapid feelings of mutual trust - called ‘swift’ trust - are more likely to form in weak tie interactions [16].”
Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, background): “…shows strong interpersonal ties—characterized by high communication frequency, long duration, and affective attachment (Marsden & Campbell, 1984)—are more effective than weak ties in enhancing knowledge transfer and learning (e.g., Bouty, 2000; Levin & Cross, 2004; Uzzi & Lancaster, 2003).”
Towards an Interdisciplinary Conceptualization of Trust: A Typological Approach (2007, unknown): “In this sense, the idea of trust strength must be incorporated into the framework, especially the possible link between trust strength and tie strength (Child and Moellering, 2003; Jones and George, 1998; Levin and Cross, 2004; Uzzi, 1997), given the critical link between trust and social capital (L”