Digital Relationships
eBook - ePub

Digital Relationships

Network Agency Theory and Big Tech

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Digital Relationships

Network Agency Theory and Big Tech

About this book

Why do so many organizations fail to mobilize the social networks of employees to respond to disruptions, innovate, and change? In Digital Relationships, Jason Davis argues that individual and organizational interests about networking can come out of alignment such that the network ties that individuals form are organizationally sub-optimal for achieving their most ambitious goals. Developing a new perspective about networks and organizations, he explains through network agency theory how network problems emerge, the role of digital technology adoption by organizations in amplifying misalignment, and the capacity of managers and function of the executive to resolve agency problems and mitigate their impact. Drawing on over a decade of qualitative research in US, Asian, and European "big tech" companies and new analytical and computational modeling, this book offers new interpretations and solutions to the pathologies that emerge from organizationally detrimental networking behaviors and in the face of managerial interventions.

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Information

Publisher
Stanford Business Books
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780804791106
eBook ISBN
9781503634176
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Strategy
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Part I: Principal-Agent Problems in Networks: Conflicting Interests in Networking and Their Effects
  8. Part II: Theory of the Firm: Network Agency Problems in the Organizational Context
  9. Afterword
  10. Appendix: Blue-Sky Model of Organizational Networking
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index