Social networks and creativity
14 important questions on Social networks and creativity
Perry-Smith & Shalley (2003) - Strong ties characteristics and benefits
Frequent interaction
High emotional closeness
Reciprocity
Benefits:
Routines & norms
Create conformity
Similarity between actors
Repciprocity
Perry-Smith & Shalley (2003) - Weak ties characteristics and benefits
Infrequent interaction
Low emotional closeness
One-way exchanges
Benefits
New ideas & innovation
Facilitate autonomy
Diversity of actors
Flexibility
Perry-Smith & Shalley (2003) - Centrality benefits and downsides
Access to more information from inside the organization
Higher status and power
Calculated risk taking
Downsides:
Pulled in too many directions
Information overload
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Perry-Smith & Shalley (2003) - Periphery benefits
- Access to more information from outside the organization
- New ideas and approaches
- Boundary spanning
- Early adopter
Obstfeld (2005) - Sparse social networks strengths:
- Creativity
- Weak ties
- Combination of ideas
- Access to unique information
- Diverse experiences
- Control and different interests
Obstfeld (2005) - Dense social networks strengths:
- Implementing innovation
- Strong ties
- Mobilization of people
- Locus of shared knowledge
- Shared trust and norms
- Cooperation and alignment of interests
Long Lingo & O'Mahony (2010) - Tertius Gaudens characteristics:
- Strategy of disunion
- Structural conception of brokerage
- Individual benefits and social capital
- Information advantage
- Produce creative ideas
- Separation of disparate fields
Long Lingo & O'Mahony (2010) - Tertius Iungens characteristics:
- Strategy of union
- Practice conception of brokerage
- Common goals and social capital
- Implementation advantage
- Synthesize creative ideas
- Integration of disparate fields
Long Lingo & O'Mahony (2010) - Four levels of brokerage
- Making parties on either side of the structural hole aware
- Transferring knowledge from one group to another
- Drawing analogies from one group to another
- Synthesizing ideas from multiple sources
Long Lingo & O'Mahony (2010) - Three types of ambiguity:
- Definitions of quality (what should the creative process produce)
- Occupational jurisdictions (who should control the creative process)
- Transformation process (how can the creative work can be produced)
Perry-Smith & Mannucci (2017) - Social network characteristics
- Weak ties (non-redundant connections to different circles)
- Strong ties (trust and cooperation)
- Structural holes (access to diverse information)
Perry-Smith & Mannucci (2017) - Four phases in the idea journey and the needed support
- Idea generation > cognitive flexibility
- Idea elaboration > support & feedback
- Idea championing > influence & legitimacy
- Idea implementation > shared vision & understanding
Perry-Smith & Mannucci (2017) - Limitations of network activation fluidity
- Weak ties may be difficult to reactivate
- Strong ties create expectation to be involved in all phases
Clement et al. (2017) - Positive and negative externalities of brokerage
Negative: limits to the effort and attention of hubs to contribute to their own communities.
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