New Network Models for the Analysis of Social Contagion in Organizations: An Introduction to Autologistic Actor Attribute Models
| Autor: | Andrew Parker, Francesca Pallotti, Alessandro Lomi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Strategy and Management
05 social sciences 050401 social sciences methods General Decision Sciences Emotional contagion Statistical model Cognition 0504 sociology Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business H1 Psychology 050203 business & management Cognitive psychology Social influence Network model |
| Zdroj: | Organizational Research Methods, 2022, Vol.25(3), pp.513-540 [Peer Reviewed Journal] |
| ISSN: | 1552-7425 1094-4281 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10944281211005167 |
| Popis: | Autologistic actor attribute models (ALAAMs) provide new analytical opportunities to advance research on how individual attitudes, cognitions, behaviors, and outcomes diffuse through networks of social relations in which individuals in organizations are embedded. ALAAMs add to available statistical models of social contagion the possibility of formulating and testing competing hypotheses about the specific mechanisms that shape patterns of adoption/diffusion. The main objective of this article is to provide an introduction and a guide to the specification, estimation, interpretation and evaluation of ALAAMs. Using original data, we demonstrate the value of ALAAMs in an analysis of academic performance and social networks in a class of graduate management students. We find evidence that both high and low performance are contagious, that is, diffuse through social contact. However, the contagion mechanisms that contribute to the diffusion of high performance and low performance differ subtly and systematically. Our results help us identify new questions that ALAAMs allow us to ask, new answers they may be able to provide, and the constraints that need to be relaxed to facilitate their more general adoption in organizational research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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