Tie Decay and Dissolution: Contentious Prescribing Practices in the Prescription Drug Epidemic
| Autor: | Marissa King, Victoria Shu Zhang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Prescription drug business.industry Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Public relations Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Work (electrical) Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business 030212 general & internal medicine Business 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Organ Sci (Linthicum) |
| ISSN: | 1526-5455 1047-7039 |
| DOI: | 10.1287/orsc.2020.1412 |
| Popis: | Although a substantial body of work has investigated drivers of tie formation, there is growing interest in understanding why relationships decay or dissolve altogether. The networks literature has tended to conceptualize tie decay as driven by processes similar to those underlying tie formation. Yet information that is revealed through ongoing interactions can exert different effects on tie formation and tie decay. This paper investigates how tie decay and tie formation processes differ by focusing on contentious practices. To the extent that information about dissimilarities in contentious practices is learned through ongoing interactions, it can exert diverging effects on tie formation and tie decay. Using a longitudinal data set of 141,543 physician dyads, we find that differences in contentious prescribing led ties to weaken or dissolve altogether but did not affect tie formation. The more contentious the practice and the more information available about the practice, the stronger the effect on tie decay and dissolution. Collectively, these findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of relationship evolution as an unfolding process through which deeper-level differences are revealed and shape the outcome of the tie. |
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