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NETWORKS, MARKETING AND ORGANISATIONS

27 - 29 August 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands

Thursday 27 August 2009
9.30 - 10.00 Reception and welcome
  CONTROL
10.00 - 10.40

Martin Gargiulo

The Two Faces of Control in Social Networks

10.40 - 11.20

Alessandro Lomi

How to Close a Hole: Exploring the Effects of Multi-Connectivity and Generalized Closure in The Formation of Inter-organizational Networks

  CONFLICT
11.30-12.10

Rafael Wittek

A matter of style? Informal Networks and Dyadic Conflict Management Strategies in an Organization

12.10-12.50

Beate Völker

Foes at work: On the evolution of negative work relationships

  KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS
14.00-14.40

Jeroen Bruggeman

Knowledge specialization, knowledge brokerage, and the uneven growth of technology domains

14.40-15.20

Filip Agneessens

Weak versus Strong Ties as Sources of Job Satisfaction: Network Centrality and Social Contagion

  SAMPLING AND NETWORK STATISTICS
15.30-16.10

Ted Mouw

An Adaptive Network-Based Approach to Collecting Data from a Hidden Population

16.25-17.00

Tom Snijders

Reflections, comments, and wrap-up: The relationship between social network analysis and statistics.

Friday, 28 August 2009
  HIERARCHY AND STATUS
10.00-10.40

Alona Labun

Power Networks: The Effects of Reputation, Social Embeddedness and Power Strategies

10.40-11.20

Birgit Pauksztat

Social relations and employee voice

11.20-12.00

Lea Ellwardt

Who Are the Objects of Positive and Negative Gossip at Work? A Social Network Perspective on Workplace Gossip

  COOPERATION
13.00-13.40

Arno Riedl

Exclusion, Coordination, and Cooperation in Experimental Networks

13.40-14.20

Gerhard van de Bunt
Similarity in friendship networks: Selection or influence? The effect of constraining contexts and non-visible individual attributes.

14.20-15.00

Marta Varanda

Discussion relations and adhesion to a policy program: optimizing the participation of economic actors

  • Powerpoint presentation
  CAREERS AND LIFE COURSE
15.20-16.00

Tobias Stark

The Common Interest trap: Ethnic segregation as an unintended byproduct of opinion homophily

16.00-16.40

Bram Lancee

Turkish migrants and native Germans compared: The effect of inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic friendships on the transition from unemployment to work

16.40-17.20

Sandy Bogaert

The impact of demographic distance and network ties on individual turnover of professional employees

17.20-17.40

All participants

Concluding discussion

Saturday, 29 August 2009
  NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS
9.30-10.10

Emmanuel Lazega

A neo-structural theory of cooperation among competitors

10.10-10.50

Peter Groenewegen

Organization emergence in the digital age

  DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
11.50-12.20

Frans Stokman

Reflections, comments, and wrap-up: The relationship between social network analysis, empirical research and theoretical model building.

12.20-13.00

All participants

Concluding discussion