A Relational View of Information Seeking and Learning in Social Networks

By Stephen P. Borgatti, Rob Cross. Management Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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Science communication on YouTube: Factors that affect channel and video popularity (2016, background): “Among the key factors used by consumers to identify trusted sources of information on Web 2.0 are communicator expertise, experience, impartiality, affinity and a source being trusted within a content consumer’s social network (Borgatti and Cross, 2003; Heath et al., 2007).”
Performance Impact of Middle Managers' Adaptive Strategy Implementation: the Role of Social Capital (2014, background): “These hidden costs may be in the form of interpersonal risks (e.g., admitting ignorance on a topic), obligations to return a favor, or overuse of resources for purposes other than internal information exchange (Borgatti and Cross, 2003; Choi, 2002; Krackhardt and Stern, 1988).”
A Social Network Analysis of Positive and Negative Gossip in Organizational Life (2010, methodology): “However, although little research has been conducted on the construct validity of social network measures, evidence suggests that these measures are valid (Borgatti & Cross, 2003; Ibarra, 1992, 1995; Marsden, 1990; Mouton, Blake, & Fruchter, 1955).”
Why do international assignees stay? An organizational embeddedness perspective (2011, background): “In a related vein, Borgatti and Cross (2003) demonstrated that an individual’s social ties with other organizational members enable the individual to learn more about what these colleagues know, which in turn facilitates the individual’s search for relevant information.”
Transactive Memory Systems (2008, background): “Although gender stereotypes impact TMS (Hollingshead & Fraidin, 2003), several other factors, such as education, task and job type, status, and partnerspecific transaction cost, can prevent information from being retrieved from experts (Borgatti & Cross, 2003; Bunderson, 2003).”
Managing Knowledge in Organizations: An Integrative Framework and Review of Emerging Themes (2003, background): “Similarly, Borgatti and Cross (2003) demonstrate the importance of expert status in predicting knowledge transfer across individuals. Sine, Shane, and Di Gregorio (2003) also consider the importance of social status and find that knowledge created by a high-status institution is more likely to be li”
“Pyramiding: Efficient search for rare subjects” (2009, background): “1985, Wegner 1987,1995, Austin 2003, Borgatti and Cross 2003, Reagans, Argote, and Brooks”
Transactive Memory Systems 1985–2010: An Integrative Framework of Key Dimensions, Antecedents, and Consequences (2011, background): “Borgatti and Cross (2003) suggested that the likelihood of seeking information from another person is a function of knowing and valuing what the person knows, getting timely access to that person, and the perceived cost of the information-seeking effort.”
Internationalization and the performance of born-global SMEs: the mediating role of social networks (2007, background): “Social network theories are of growing significance in various literatures, including organizational studies (e.g., Batjargal, 2003; Borgatti and Cross, 2003), strategic management (e.”
Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities (2011, neutral): “10 2003), and management studies (Wenger, 1998; Adler and Kwon, 2002; Borgatti and Cross, 2003).”