What Is a “Good” Social Network for Policy Implementation? The Flow of Know-How for Organizational Change

Title: What Is a “Good” Social Network for Policy Implementation? The Flow of Know-How for Organizational Change
Abstract/Description: This study concerns how intraorganizational networks affect the implementation of policies and practices in organizations. In particular, we attend to the role of the informal subgroup or clique in cultivating and distributing locally adapted and integrated knowledge, or know-how. We develop two hypotheses based on the importance of intraorganizational coordination for an organization's capacity for change. The first emphasizes the importance of distributing know-how evenly to potential recipient subgroups. The second emphasizes the importance of restricting know-how to flow from high know-how subgroups. We test our hypotheses with longitudinal network data in 21 schools, finding stronger support for the second hypothesis than the first. Our findings can help managers cultivate know-how flows to contribute to organizational change.
Author/creator: Frank, Kenneth A.; Penuel, William R.; Krause, Ann E.
Date: 2015
In publication: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Pages: 378-402
Language: en
ISSN: 1520-6688
DOI: 10.1002/pam.21817
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pam.21817

Item sets: OB Citations - Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Improvement Networks

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