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Martin Kilduff

    Martin Kilduff

    Martin Kilduff, Craig Crossland, Wenpin Tsai and Matthew T. Bowers discuss the acolyte effect
    >> Four published reanalyses of part of the celebrated medical innovation data focus on network effects on the diffusion of tetracycline. Each reanalysis rejects the findings of the previous analysis. This article shows that in the... more
    >> Four published reanalyses of part of the celebrated medical innovation data focus on network effects on the diffusion of tetracycline. Each reanalysis rejects the findings of the previous analysis. This article shows that in the early 1950s, when the original data were collected, private practice physicians, swamped by demand, but facing threats to their autonomy from the federal government and from university medical centers, struggled to keep up with new therapies and relied on colleagues and friends within the profession for help and advice. This article examines the reanalyses’ judgment calls concerning the use of a psychophysics power function, the employment of a time-sensitive model, the imputation and exclusion of data, and the addition of new variables. Given the radical undecidability of numerical evidence in the absence of context, the reanalysis of stand-alone data is likely to produce a continuing series of conflicting results.
    Social networks involve ties (and their absence) between people in social settings such as organizations. Yet much social network research, given its roots in sociology, ignores the individuality of people in emphasizing the constraints... more
    Social networks involve ties (and their absence) between people in social settings such as organizations. Yet much social network research, given its roots in sociology, ignores the individuality of people in emphasizing the constraints of the structural positions that people occupy. A recent movement to bring people back into social network research draws on the rich history of social psychological research to show that ( a) personality (i.e., self-monitoring) is key to understanding individuals’ occupation of social network positions, ( b) individuals’ perceptions of social networks relate to important outcomes, and ( c) relational energy is transmitted through social network connections. Research at different levels of analysis includes the network around the individual (the ego network), dyadic ties, triadic structures, and whole networks of interacting individuals. We call for future research concerning personality and structure, social network change, perceptions of networks, ...
    ... GUEST EDITORS: Ranjay Gulati, Martin Kilduff, Stan Li, Andrew Shipilov, Wenpin Tsai. ... theories and empirical research have examined linkages between social structures and team-level outcomes (Hansen, 1999; Oh, Chung, &... more
    ... GUEST EDITORS: Ranjay Gulati, Martin Kilduff, Stan Li, Andrew Shipilov, Wenpin Tsai. ... theories and empirical research have examined linkages between social structures and team-level outcomes (Hansen, 1999; Oh, Chung, & Labianca, 2004; Roberson & Colquitt, 2005), but ...
    Under what circumstances are individuals' perceptions of friendship relations shaped by the balance schema'' Using data from 4 organizations varying in size from 21 to 33... more
    Under what circumstances are individuals' perceptions of friendship relations shaped by the balance schema'' Using data from 4 organizations varying in size from 21 to 33 members, the authors investigated how ego's perception of the social distance from ego to alter affected ...
    Change, development, pluralism: these seem-ingly innocuous words have an edgy, contempo-rary ring to them. They suggest the threat of competition and conflict, as well as the promise of new opportunities and the discovery of diver-sity.... more
    Change, development, pluralism: these seem-ingly innocuous words have an edgy, contempo-rary ring to them. They suggest the threat of competition and conflict, as well as the promise of new opportunities and the discovery of diver-sity. These three words ...
    ... Please send all correspondence to Martin Kilduff, 424 Beam, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. ... model usage" (Rynes Lawler, 1983, p. 633; for reviews of organizational choice... more
    ... Please send all correspondence to Martin Kilduff, 424 Beam, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. ... model usage" (Rynes Lawler, 1983, p. 633; for reviews of organizational choice research, see Schwab, Rynes, Aldag, 1987, and Wanous, Keon, Latack, 1983 ...
    ABSTRACT This is a most unusual paper. It is based on 11 months of ethnographic studies in a Japanese high-technology company. It investigates the structuring process of identity creation in organization. The authors painstakingly detail... more
    ABSTRACT This is a most unusual paper. It is based on 11 months of ethnographic studies in a Japanese high-technology company. It investigates the structuring process of identity creation in organization. The authors painstakingly detail how the technologies of production, routinization and spatial order combine into daily mutual dependencies, joint sensemaking and the formation of an intense social order to the exclusion of other obligations. The findings have important implications for team based organizations and for the maintenance of a collective identity beyond the control of the individual.
    ... doesn't represent a good fit with AMR, along with any suggestions that occur to me for where it ... this material will be novel for an AMR audience?” At AMR we will not send for review ... To avoid the appearance of an... more
    ... doesn't represent a good fit with AMR, along with any suggestions that occur to me for where it ... this material will be novel for an AMR audience?” At AMR we will not send for review ... To avoid the appearance of an ethical violation, an author should always in-form the editor in a ...

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