Tag: 2015

• September 22, 2018

  Peers and network growth: Evidence from a natural experiment

  Management Science, 61(10), 2536-2547. (with Surendrakumar Bagde) Much research suggests that social networks affect individual and organizational success. However, a strong assumption underlying this research is that network structure is not reducible to the individual attributes of social actors. In this article, we test this assumption by examining whether interacting with random peers causes exogenous growth […]
• September 22, 2018

  The lives and deaths of jobs: Technical interdependence and survival in a job structure

  Organization Science, 26(6), 1665-1681 (with John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning) Prior work has considered the properties of individual jobs that make them more or less likely to survive in organizations. Yet little research examines how a job’s position within a larger job structure affects its life chances and thus the evolution of the larger job structure over time. […]