Standing Working Group 2 – Sub-theme 02:

Organizational Network Research – Where is the Network Society Heading?

Chair: Marius Meeus
Discussant: to be announced

Denise Korssen-Van Raaij and Patrick Kenis
Towards a network: Theory of performance of Web-based Information Communities (WebICs)

Stefano Denicolai, Gabriele Cioccarelli and Antonella Zucchella
The "Network Society 2.0": Implications for organization studies and practitioners

Thomas de Bailliencourt, Sami Guesmi and Alexandre Mallard
Wikis' at work: An exploratory study on wikis' adoption, their uses and implications on information sharing and collaboration activities within organizations

Jörg Raab
Key Note: Where is the analysis of network society heading?
 

Chair: Amalya Oliver
Discussant: to be announced

Uta Wilkens
A question of either or? – Communities of practice or teams in interaction

Santi Furnari
Social networks and brokering behavior in teams: When and why do drokers act against their own teams?

Barthélemy Chollet
Brokering knowledge but missing opportunities: The cost of technically distant social ties

Maxim Sytch, Adam Tatarynowicz and Ranjay Gulati
Where do brokers come from? The role of a firm's ability, motivation, and opportunity
 

Chair: Marius Meeus
Discussant: to be announced

Werner H. Hoffmann
How firms develop the capability to manage a portfolio of alliances: The coevolution of structure and processes

Peter Smith Ring, Gianni Lorenzoni and Antonio Capaldo
Managing networks: The nature and roles of dynamic capabilities

Francesca Palotti, Daniele Mascia, Alessandro Lomi and Americo Cichetti
Homophily vs heterogeneity. What does really matter for interorganizational collaboration?
 

Chair: Amalya Oliver
Discussant: to be announced

Ines A. Mergel and David Lazer
The dog that didn't bark: Explaining the absence of social capital among state health officials

Holger Straßheim
A new space of places? Governance dynamics and competence building in public administration networks

Alexandra Mannsky, Achim Oberg and Carola Windlin
Network legitimacy in the field – The case of donations to non-government-organizations

Debbie de Lange
How international collaboration affects decision making in the UN: An embedded view
 

Chair: Marius Meeus
Discussant: to be announced

Joseph Lampel and Jamal Shamsie
When the global meets the local: The interaction of the U.K. and the U.S. film industries

Terry L. Amburgey, Andreas Al-Laham and Barak Aharanson
Where is the network society heading? It's going global

Mohamed Boukhris
Network structures and merger & acquisition formation patterns: A longitudinal analysis

Hélène Delacour, Sébastien Liarte and Philippe Mérigot
Is anyone (really) connected to anyplace at anytime? Linking the network society amd the propinquity effect
 

Chair: Marius Meeus
Discussant: to be announced

Paolo Bocardelli, Andrea Lipparini and Vanina Torlò
Never change a winning team? A study on the network dynamics and performance in the motion picture industry

Maryse M.H. Chappin, Marius T.H. Meeus and Jan Faber
Effects of varying participant efforts on trial-and-error learning in a network project

Joaquín Herranz Jr.
Multisectoral network adaptation

Agustí Canals, Eric Quintane and Josep Cobarsí
How (and why) do social networks differ? Examining the role of endogenous factors in the development of network structural characteristics
 

Chair: Amalya Oliver
Discussant: to be announced

Joanne Jin Zhang
Equifinality or a false sense of "knowledge sameness"?

Alexander Fliaster, Florian Schloderer and Petra Eggenhofer
Personality, relational embeddedness, and performance: A missing link

Imran Chowdhury, Peter Pal Zubcsek and Zsolt Katona
Communication networks: Communities and network closure revisited
 

Plenary debate on next year's topics
Chair: Marius Meeus

Peter Smith Ring
Key Note and Wrap-Up