Beyond answers: dimensions of the advice network

By Rob Cross, Stephen P. Borgatti, Andrew Parker. Soc. Networks, 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom" (2015, background): “Further, studies of advice seeking have demonstrated that advice relations are rarely asymmetrical (Constant et al. 1996; Cross et al. 2001).”
Does familiarity breed trust? Revisiting the antecedents of trust (2008, background): “29: 165–190 (2008) DOI: 10.1002/mde missing data and 30 observations on components supplied in-house led us to retain 143 observations for the analysis that pertained to 109 unique suppliers.”
Knowledge and Information Networks in an Italian Wine Cluster (2009, background): “, 2001 ; Granovetter, 1973 ; Stuart & Sorenson, 2003 ).”
When Does Technology Use Enable Network Change in Organizations? A Comparative Study of Feature Use and Shared Affordances (2013, background): “…which ties represent one person seeking advice about work related issues from another ) within organizations are consistently shown to be important engines of productivity and social support because they enable the movement of pertinent information among employees (Cross et al. 2001; Gibbons 2004).”
Motivation and barriers to participation in virtual knowledge-sharing communities of practice (2003, positive): “For a community to be vibrant, there should be also an active participation on the demand side: numerous members should be visiting the CoP Web site, using online search tools or posting questions when they search for advice or information (Cross et al., 2001).”
Advice taking and decision-making: An integrative literature review, and implications for the organizational sciences (2006, methodology): “A more restrictive interaction is found in Dalal (2001) and Sniezek and Van Swol (2001, Experiment 2).”
Building Collegial Information Networks: A Theory of Advice Network Generation (2006, background): “Cross et al. (2001) label these activities problem formulation and affirmation, and they found support for these motivations to contact others in their study of knowledge workers.”
The Alignment of the Informal and Formal Organizational Supports for Reform: Implications for Improving Teaching in Schools (2010, background): “The degree to which such forms “override” or complement the personal, less jobrelevant characteristics that may influence whether individuals turn to another for help is something that can be explicitly tested in social selection models (see, e.g., Cross, Borgatti, and Parker, 2001).”