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

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 751-771

  Soda, Giuseppe ^a   Zaheer, Akbar ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

formal and informal organization; network architecture; network consistency; networks; organizational architecture; organizational consistency and inconsistency

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; FINANCIAL SERVICE; FORMAL AND INFORMAL NETWORKS; INFORMAL INTERACTIONS; INFORMATION NETWORKS; MULTIPLE NETWORKS; ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL CONSISTENCY AND INCONSISTENCY; PERFORMANCE EFFECT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SURVEY DATA;

INFORMATION SERVICES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84859709881     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.1966     Document Type: Review

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