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Journal Articles Communications of the Association for Information Systems Year : 2006

Lifting the Veil on Organizational Structure: A Social Network Analysis of Professional E-Mail Use

Abstract

This study is about the structure embedded in e-mail relationships. Based on data describing organizational e-mail exchanges, this research deals with organizational structure, personal power, and the centrality of people in a network. Social network analysis is used to study the centralization dimension of the structure embedded in the data. The data concerns 385 employees of 36 firms within a group. Our empirical study first explores several possible assessments of power and centrality concepts; then, it tests a causal relationship between personal and organizational attributes of power and centrality indexes. Results show the relationships between personal characteristics, aspects of organizational power, and e-mail network centrality. A discussion of the way managers may use electronic communication data to better interpret the nature and the dynamic of the organizational structure concludes the article.
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hal-01656776 , version 1 (12-11-2019)

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Alain Cucchi, Chantal Fuhrer. Lifting the Veil on Organizational Structure: A Social Network Analysis of Professional E-Mail Use. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2006, 18, pp.2-33. ⟨hal-01656776⟩
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