文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Communication and organizational social networks: a simulation model

作者：Chen, Liang[1];Gable, Guy G.[2];Hu, Haibo[1]

机构：[1]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Queensland Univ Technol, Fac Sci & Technol, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia

年份：2013

卷号：19

期号：4

起止页码：460

外文期刊名：COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY

收录：;EI(收录号：20134817030858);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000327322900005)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000327322900005)】；

基金：We thank the financial grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (project No. 71001040 and No. 71102167). We acknowledge the highly professional assistance and intellectual input of Research Assistant Karen Stark.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Communication; Organizational social networks; Growth model; Management practice

摘要：Recent management research has evidenced the significance of organizational social networks, and communication is believed to impact the interpersonal relationships. However, we have little knowledge on how communication affects organizational social networks. This paper studies the dynamics between organizational communication patterns and the growth of organizational social networks. We propose an organizational social network growth model, and then collect empirical data to test model validity. The simulation results agree well with the empirical data. The results of simulation experiments enrich our knowledge on communication with the findings that organizational management practices that discourage employees from communicating within and across group boundaries have disparate and significant negative effect on the social network's density, scalar assortativity and discrete assortativity, each of which correlates with the organization's performance. These findings also suggest concrete measures for management to construct and develop the organizational social network.