A network perspective on organizational architecture: performance effects of the interplay of formal and informal organization

Soda, Giuseppe; Zaheer, Akbar

doi:10.1002/smj.1966

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“…First, it contributes to our understanding of the interplay of formal and semiformal structure (Biancani, McFarland, and Dahlander 2014;Kleinbaum, Stuart, and Tushman 2013;Soda and Zaheer 2012). It suggests that the degree and nature of overlap between formal and semiformal structure can importantly shape whom a person chooses to interact with during a period of ambiguity.…”

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Intraorganizational Network Dynamics in Times of Ambiguity

Srivastava

2015

Organization Science

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Contrary to the assumption of relational inertia that is prevalent in much of the research on organizational change, I propose that intraorganizational networks are instead subject to transitory shifts when organizational change produces high levels of ambiguity for employees. I develop a theoretical account of how networks defined by formal, semiformal, and informal organizational structure change in response to heightened ambiguity. I argue that, when ambiguity increases, people will tend to: (1) decrease communication with formal network ties that do not have a significant semiformal component; (2) increase communication with semiformal network ties that do not have a significant formal component; and (3) increase communication with informal network ties. Empirical support for these propositions comes from unique data-including 40 weeks of archived email meta-data, the full roster of email distribution lists, personnel records, and qualitative interviews-that span the period before, during, and after an ambiguity-producing restructuring at a large information services firm. These findings contribute to research on organizational structure, organizational change, and social capital activation and also have implications for management practice. June, 20153

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Intraorganizational Network Dynamics in Times of Ambiguity

Srivastava

2015

Organization Science

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“…As Soda and Zaheer [27] state, the organizational research emphasizes the value of consistency among organisztional elements, arguing that internal fit among them enhances corporate performance, maintaining a coherence image of the organization and creating value through the mutual reinforcement between and within tangible and intangible assets of the organization. From a managerial firm perspective, strategic consistency implies an alignment among stakeholder approach of companies, their declared commitments, and their performance [28].…”

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The Effect of Environmental, Social and Governance Consistency on Economic Results

2016

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This study aims to explore how environmental, social and governance (ESG) consistency impacts the firm performance, specifically, the relationship between ESG performance and economic performance (EP). This study posits that the company's commitment and effectiveness towards the creation of consistent competitive advantage in environmental, social and governance dimensions constitutes an intangible value that leads improvements in corporate performance. This work uses a panel dataset for listed firms of the EU-15 countries during the period 2002 to 2011 and applies Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator system in order to address the potential unobserved heterogeneity and dynamic endogeneity. The main results reveal that the global effect of ESG performance on EP for those firms that present interdimensional consistency is greater than the rest, except for higher levels of ESG performance.

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“…Other factors that influence the organizational climate are: the increase of employees' behavior and the effectiveness of work place intervention to increase the proenvironment behaviors (Unsworth, Dmitrieva, & Adriasola, 2013); formal and informal interaction by Soda, & Zaheer (2012), stated that consistency between formal and informal network give different impacts on performance; positive influence of work team by Walter & Bruch (2008), these studies suggest positive work group simultaneously correlate in form of self-reinforcing spiral, which was supported by affective sharing and affective similarity among group members.…”

Section: Organizational Climatementioning

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Implication Of Organizational Climate On Strengthening The Organisational Commitment

Marhawati¹

2017

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ICSET 2017)

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The paper aims to describe the organization's climate implications in strengthening organization commitment. The paper described the result of study and review of literature from various articles related to organization climate and organization commitment then it identified, organized, and managed into presentation structure from the general scope to the specific scope. In addition, the paper is according to the existing presentation structure. The results of the discussion show that the organization's climate is based on the organization's climate diversity, namely: competitive climate, innovative climate, socio-moral climate, communication climate and service climate. The diversity of organization climate affects to the corporate productivity and the profits. When employees believe that their workplace supports ideas and change, and this requires initiatives of innovative resource, furthermore they are able to generate and express their innovative ideas and the change suggestions of the organization. It will be able to strengthen the commitment of employees in the organization to be higher.

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A network perspective on organizational architecture: performance effects of the interplay of formal and informal organization

Cited by 194 publications

References 68 publications

Intraorganizational Network Dynamics in Times of Ambiguity

Intraorganizational Network Dynamics in Times of Ambiguity

The Effect of Environmental, Social and Governance Consistency on Economic Results

Implication Of Organizational Climate On Strengthening The Organisational Commitment

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