Organizational network perceptions versus reality: A small world after all?

Martin Kilduff; Craig Crossland; Wenpin Tsai; David Krackhardt

doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.12.003

Organizational network perceptions versus reality: A small world after all?

Martin Kilduff, Craig Crossland, Wenpin Tsai, David Krackhardt

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Abstract

Given the complexity of organizing and keeping track of even a small organizational network, boundedly rational people may have learned to use small world principles in perceiving friendship networks: arrange people in dense clusters, and connect the clusters with short paths. Analysis of 116 perceived friendship networks from four different organizations showed that these perceived networks exhibited greater small world properties than the actual friendship networks. Further, people perceived more friendship clustering than actually existed, and attributed more popularity and brokerage to the perceivedly-popular than to the actually-popular.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	15-28
Number of pages	14
Journal	Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Volume	107
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.12.003
State	Published - Sep 1 2008

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Applied Psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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