The co-evolution of gossip and friendship in workplace social networks
The co-evolution of gossip and friendship in workplace social networks
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socnet.2012.07.002
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发表时间：
2012-10-01
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影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Wittek, Rafael
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作者：
Ellwardt, Lea;Steglich, Christian;Wittek, Rafael
本研究探讨组织中友谊与八卦的共同演化。两种相互矛盾的观点得到了检验。社会资本的观点预测，友谊导致员工之间的八卦，定义为非正式的评价谈论缺席的同事。进化论的观点则颠倒了这一因果关系，认为八卦有助于增进友谊。数据包括一个完整的组织网络的三个观察，允许纵向社会网络分析。RSiena将八卦和友谊建模为解释性和结果性网络。研究结果支持进化论的观点，即两个人之间的八卦增加了他们未来建立友谊的可能性。然而，八卦频率高得不成比例的人在社交网络中的朋友更少，这表明利用八卦来吸引朋友是有限度的。(C) 2012 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
This study investigates the co-evolution of friendship and gossip in organizations. Two contradicting perspectives are tested. The social capital perspective predicts that friendship causes gossip between employees, defined as informal evaluative talking about absent colleagues. The evolutionary perspective reverses this causality claiming that gossiping facilitates friendship. The data comprises of three observations of a complete organizational network, allowing longitudinal social network analyses. Gossip and friendship are modeled as both explanatory and outcome networks with RSiena. Results support the evolutionary perspective in that gossip between two individuals increases the likelihood of their future friendship formation. However, individuals with disproportionately high gossip activity have fewer friends in the network, suggesting that the use of gossiping to attract friends has a limit. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.