Where do intra-organizational advice relations come from? The role of informal status and social capital in social exchange

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 333-345

  Agneessens, Filip ^a   Wittek, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advice relation; Cycle; Longitudinal analysis; Organizations; Social capital; Social exchange theory; Social network analysis; Status; Triads

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861341593     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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