Social networks and organizational conflict

Behavioral Conflict and Fairness in Social Networks

We report on a series of behavioral experiments in social networks in which human subjects continuously choose to play either a dominant role (called a King) or a submissive one (called a Pawn). Kings receive a higher payoff rate, but only if all their network neighbors are Pawns, and thus the maximum social welfare states correspond to maximum independent sets. We document that fairness is of ...

Spatial and Social Networks in Organizational Innovation

Research on the enabling factors of innovation has focused on either the social component of organizations or on the spatial dimensions involved in the innovation process. But no one has examined the aggregate consequences of the link from spatial layout, to social networks, to innovation. This project enriches our understanding of how innovation works especially in highly innovative organizati...

Social Networks and Multi-agent Organizational Performance

In studying the dynamical behavior of processes in artificial or natural social systems, a key factor is the topology of the network structure. It has been shown that real-world social networks tend to have non-random network structure with properties such as short average path length, excess clustering, and skewed degree distributions (Albert & Barabási 2002; Newman 2003). We show in this pape...

The structure of Organizational Virtual Social Networks

Organizational virtual social networks (OVSN) reshape social structures due to their ability to strengthen social ties, to change power relations and to enable new forms of cooperation. Research in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has led to various approaches that analyze the impact of OVSN on organizations in terms of structure and behavior. Our study aims to analyze important...

Classifying Organizational Roles Using Email Social Networks