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The latest trends in the field of social networks which emphasize the role of actors characteristics have provided scholars with the avenues to research on social networks from individualistic appr...

Increasing number of studies on social networks examined the effects of negative as well as positive relationships in organizations. Responding to the call for investigating the effects of negative...

Many organizations use project teams to meet the growing necessity for flexibility and innovation, however, previous studies have been mainly concerned with human capital as a primary factor for de...

This research explored the dual nature of boundary spanners network characteristics in predicting group effectiveness. The results from a survey of 86 work groups at four Korea-based design organiz...

The current study explores the antecedent and consequence of employee creativity in service contexts by focusing on emotional labor as the predictor and job performance as the outcome of the creativity of service employees given the nature of their work engaging in people work with customers. Specifically, we investigate the questions of how emotional labor strategies of surface acting and deep acting directly and indirectly (through emotional exhaustion) affect service employee creativity, and how employee creativity leads to individual job performance in service sector. The results of structural model analysis from a sample of 119 flight attendants in South Korea showed that deep acting directly increased service employee creativity and indirectly enhanced it through lower emotional exhaustion whereas surface acting directly decreased the level of employee creativity and indirectly reduced it through higher emotional exhaustion. We also found that service employees who are creative tend to have greater ...

Although creativity has long been regarded as an individual trait or behavior, it is in fact a complex social phenomenon that emerges from interpersonal relationships. To explore the relational aspects of creativity from a social network perspective, we adopt a sequential model of the creative process, suggesting that different network characteristics of individuals (global brokerage, local brokerage, and local embeddedness) have distinctive effects on three sequential stages in the creative process (knowledge search, integration, and validation) and consequently affect creative outcomes. The results from empirical analyses of 133 employees in one research organization reveal that global brokerage positively affects knowledge search. Also, local embeddedness is positively related to both knowledge integration and knowledge validation. Finally, these two processes, knowledge integration and knowledge validation mediate the relationships between local embeddedness and individual creativity. These findings s...

In this study, we examine the inertia effect of structural holes in different social settings. We propose that individuals having spanned structural holes in one social network are more likely to o...