The ties that lead: A social network approach to leadership

Balkundi, Prasad; Kilduff, Martín

doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2005.09.004

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“…For example, studies have explored how aspects such as network centrality, perceptions of power, demographics, and personality traits are associated with observer accuracy of the social network structure in workplaces or network experiments (e.g., Bondonio, 1998; Casciaro, 1998; Casciaro, Carley, & Krackhardt, 1999; Simpson, Markovsky, & Steketee, 2011). Moreover, consistent with the idea that accurate perception may yield more effective outcomes, additional studies of adults have demonstrated that observer accuracy of social relationships are linked to benefits such as leadership, power, and positive work outcomes (e.g., Balkundi & Kilduff, 2006; Krackhardt, 1990). …”

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Seeing and being seen: Predictors of accurate perceptions about classmates’ relationships

Neal

Cappella

2016

Social Networks

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This study examines predictors of observer accuracy (i.e. seeing) and target accuracy (i.e. being seen) in perceptions of classmates’ relationships in a predominantly African American sample of 420 second through fourth graders (ages 7 – 11). Girls, children in higher grades, and children in smaller classrooms were more accurate observers. Targets (i.e. pairs of children) were more accurately observed when they occurred in smaller classrooms of higher grades and involved same-sex, high-popularity, and similar-popularity children. Moreover, relationships between pairs of girls were more accurately observed than relationships between pairs of boys. As a set, these findings suggest the importance of both observer and target characteristics for children’s accurate perceptions of classroom relationships. Moreover, the substantial variation in observer accuracy and target accuracy has methodological implications for both peer-reported assessments of classroom relationships and the use of stochastic actor-based models to understand peer selection and socialization processes.

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Seeing and being seen: Predictors of accurate perceptions about classmates’ relationships

Neal

Cappella

2016

Social Networks

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“…Although leaders may perceive they have a good understanding of the social network of interactions around them based on their perceptions of relationships, research suggests that their perceptions are not very accurate and in fact the accuracy of their perceptions for some networks decline as one ascends the hierarchy (Casciaro 1998;Cross and Parker 2004;Kilduff and Krackhardt 1994). Scholarship on leadership and the use of social networks suggest that leaders need to attend to both their own cognitive views of the relationships, as well as carefully examine the existing patterns to best maximize organizational outcomes (Balkundi and Kilduff 2005). Social network theory and analysis may enable central office and site leaders to build and sustain bridges of communication, support, and knowledge between their worlds as they enact system-wide change.…”

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A bridge between worlds: understanding network structure to understand change strategy

2009

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“…As noted by Linton Freeman (2004) and Prasad Balkundi and Martin Kilduff (2005) a key point of emphasis of the social networks literature is the essential difference between individuals’ attributes and their structural positions in social networks. While studies such as Lubbers et al (2007) provide important insights about the composition of migrants’ networks, egocentric network data ultimately cannot map out the larger transnational networks that connect individuals together, and, as a result, cannot locate the position of respondents within those networks.…”

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Binational Social Networks and Assimilation

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While the concept of transnationalism has gained widespread popularity among scholars as a way to describe immigrants’ long-term maintenance of cross-border ties to their origin communities, critics have argued that the overall proportion of immigrants who engage in transnational behavior is low and that, as a result, transnationalism has little sustained effect on the process of immigrant adaptation and assimilation. In this paper, we argue that a key shortcoming in the current empirical debate on transnationalism is the lack of data on the social networks that connect migrants to each other and to non-migrants in communities of origin. To address this shortcoming, our analysis uses unique bi-national data on the social network connecting an immigrant sending community in Guanajuato, Mexico, to two destination areas in the United States. We test for the effect of respondents’ positions in cross-border networks on their migration intentions and attitudes towards the United States using data on the opinions of their peers, their participation in cross border and local communication networks, and their structural position in the network. The results indicate qualified empirical support for a network-based model of transnationalism; in the U.S. sample we find evidence of network clustering consistent with peer effects, while in the Mexican sample we find evidence of the importance of cross-border communication with friends.

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The ties that lead: A social network approach to leadership

Cited by 377 publications

References 115 publications

Seeing and being seen: Predictors of accurate perceptions about classmates’ relationships

Seeing and being seen: Predictors of accurate perceptions about classmates’ relationships

A bridge between worlds: understanding network structure to understand change strategy

Binational Social Networks and Assimilation

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