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Group social capital and group effectiveness: the role of informal socializing ties (2004)
| Venue: | Academy of Management Journal |
| Citations: | 82 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Chung04groupsocial,
author = {Myung-ho Chung and Giuseppe Labianca},
title = {Group social capital and group effectiveness: the role of informal socializing ties},
journal = {Academy of Management Journal},
year = {2004},
pages = {860--875}
}
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Abstract
This study introduces the concept of group social capital, which is the configuration of group members ’ social relationships within a group and in the social structure of a broader organization, and tests the proposition that group effectiveness is maximized via optimal configurations of different conduits for such capital. These conduits include intragroup closure relationships and bridging relationships that span vertical and horizontal intergroup boundaries. Results from our 60-team field study of infor-mal socializing ties provide empirical support. As the business environment has become more complex and uncertain, organizations have re-sponded by increasingly using groups as their fun-damental unit of organizational structure in an ef-fort to decentralize decision making and respond more flexibly to their environments (Manz & Sims, 1993; Mohrman, Cohen, & Mohrman, 1995). Groups have been granted greater autonomy within
Keyphrases
group social capital group effectiveness informal socializing tie intragroup closure relationship 60-team field study optimal configuration business environment organizational structure empirical support decision making horizontal intergroup boundary different conduit fun-damental unit manz sims group member social relationship social structure
