Shared Paths to the Lab: A Sociospatial Network Analysis of Collaboration
Shared Paths to the Lab: A Sociospatial Network Analysis of Collaboration
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DOI：
10.1177/0013916513493909
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Owen-Smith, Jason
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作者：
Kabo, Felichism;Hwang, Yongha;Owen-Smith, Jason
空间布局可以显着影响社会关系的形成和结果。因此，物理上的接近对于理解社交网络的基本组成部分（二元体）至关重要。将关系定位在空间中有助于制定组织中更好的协作和信息共享模型以及更强大的网络及其影响理论。我们提出、开发和测试了一个概念，即功能区，它有效地捕捉了 Festinger 等人对与社交互动相关的功能距离的经典描述。我们通过路径和区域重叠的测量来操作功能区。在具有不同布局（紧凑与线性）的两座生物医学研究大楼中，协作率的回归分析表明，增加路径重叠可以增强协作。更传统的距离测量仅影响更线性的建筑中的协作。功能区概念提高了我们理解关系及其随之而来的组织成果的能力。
Spatial layouts can significantly influence the formation and outcomes of social relationships. Physical proximity is thus essential to understanding the elemental building blocks of social networks, dyads. Situating relationships in space is instrumental to formulating better models of collaboration and information sharing in organizations and more robust theories of networks and their effects. We propose, develop, and test a concept, the functional zone, which effectively captures Festinger et al.'s classic description of functional distance as it pertains to social interactions. We operationalize functional zone with measures of path and areal zone overlap. At two biomedical research buildings with different layouts (compact versus linear), regression analyses of collaboration rates show that increasing path overlap increases collaboration. More traditional distance measures influence collaboration only in the more linear building. The functional zone concept improves our ability to understand relationships and their attendant organizational outcomes.