If Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Graph Theoretical Dimensions of Formal and Informal Organization Structure
Autor: | Starling David Hunter |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
Structure (mathematical logic) Organizational architecture Informal organization Hierarchy 05 social sciences Organizational network analysis 01 natural sciences Data science FOS: Economics and business 010104 statistics & probability 0502 economics and business Core (graph theory) Organizational structure Sociology 0101 mathematics Social science Social network analysis 050203 business & management |
Zdroj: | International Journal of Social Science Studies. 4 |
ISSN: | 2324-8041 2324-8033 |
Popis: | Formal and informal organization structure have been described as “opposing poles of a duality”—one which has yet to be fully resolved. The aim of this paper is to detail an approach to treating both structures in a comparable way, an approach that explicitly recognizes core and underlying commonalties. Two distinct analytical strategies are employed to this end. The first involves a detailed comparison and contrast of selected and relevant structural dimensions drawn from the two research streams. The second strategy involves the application of these dimensions to the study of network graphs of both the formal and informal structures of the same organization at the same point in time. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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