Digital relationships : network agency theory and Big Tech / Jason Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Jason (Jason P.), author.

Series:

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Employees--Social networks.

Employees.

Business networks.

Online social networks.

Social capital (Sociology).

Management.

High technology industries--Employees--Social networks.

High technology industries.

High technology industries--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Why do so many organizations fail to mobilize the social networks of employees to respond to disruptions, innovate, and change? In 'Digital Relationships', Jason Davis argues that individual and organizational interests about networking can come out of alignment such that the network ties that individuals form are organizationally sub-optimal for achieving their most ambitious goals. Developing a new perspective about networks and organizations, he explains through network agency theory how network problems emerge, the role of digital technology adoption by organizations in amplifying misalignment, and the capacity of managers and function of the executive to resolve agency problems and mitigate their impact.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART I PRINCIPAL-AGENT PROBLEMS IN NETWORKS Conflicting Interests in Networking and Their Effects

1 Networks Are the Problem CONFRONTING THE SOCIAL CAPITAL CONSENSUS

2 Too Many Ties DIVERGENT INTERESTS WITH THE FALLING COSTS OF DIGITAL NETWORKING

3 Ties Too Weak INSUFFICIENT FIRM-SPECIFIC SOCIAL INVESTMENTS TO MOBILIZE DIVERSITY

4 Entrenched Brokers and Ossified Bridges MONOPOLIES OF INFORMATION AND CONTROL

5 Scale Too Free NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES OF INEQUALITY IN SOCIAL CAPITAL

PART II THEORY OF THE FIRM Network Agency Problems in the Organizational Context

6 Persistence MANAGERIAL INTERVENTION TRANSIENCE AND THE REEMERGENCE OF AGENCY PROBLEMS

7 Agentic Function of the Executive STRATEGIC SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE WORK-FROM-HOME EXPERIMENT

8 Network Governance REINTERPRETING ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND BOUNDARIES

9 Network Agency over the Life Cycle ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

10 A Research Agenda MORE CASES, MORE MODELS, MORE EXPERIMENTS

Afterword

APPENDIX Blue-Sky Model of Organizational Networking

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Davis, Jason Digital Relationships

ISBN:

9781503634176

OCLC:

1348393144