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The informal organization is the interlocking social structure that governs how people work together in practice. [1] It is the aggregate of norms, personal and professional connections through which work gets done and relationships are built among people who share a common organizational affiliation or cluster of affiliations.
The Krackhardt E/I Ratio (or variously the E-I Index) is a social network measure which the relative density of internal connections within a social group compared to the number of connections that group has to the external world.
Social capital is a concept used in sociology and economics to define networks of relationships which are productive towards advancing the goals of individuals and groups. [1] [2] It involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity.
Network of practice (often abbreviated as NoP) is a concept originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. [1] This concept, related to the work on communities of practice by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, [2] refers to the overall set of various types of informal, emergent social networks that facilitate information exchange between individuals with practice-related goals.
The network effect provides one of the most powerful sources of self-sustainable competitive advantages, Investing in companies with sustainable competitive strengths is crucial when it comes to ...
Previous work reveals that network size has a positive effect on knowledge transfer [5] as it provides the actor (e.g., firm) with two significant substantive benefits: one is the exposure to a more significant amount of external information, knowledge, and ideas and the other is resource sharing between the actor and its contacts such as ...
Personal knowledge networks (PKN) are methods for organizations to identify, capture, evaluate, retrieve, verify and share information. This method was primarily conceived by researchers to facilitate the sharing of personal, informal knowledge between organizations.
Similarly, laying an infrastructure, such as the Internet, intranets, wireless connectivity, grid computing, telephone lines, cellular service, or neighborhood networks, when combined with the devices that access them (phones, cellphones, computers, etc.) makes it possible for social networks to form. Such infrastructures make a connection ...