Many questions about the social organization of medicine and health services involve interdependencies among social actors that may be depicted by networks of relationships. Social network studies have been pursued for some time in social science...
BACKGROUND: Physicians often rely on colleagues for new information and advice about the care of their patients.
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the network of influential discussions among primary care physicians in a hospital-based academic practice.
DESIGN:...
Drawing on a recent survey of establishments in the United States, the authors examine how nonprofit, public, and for-profit establishments vary in the use of high-performance work organization (HPWO) practices that offer opportunities for participation...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the reliability of survey measures of organizational characteristics based on reports of single and multiple informants.
DATA SOURCE: Survey of 330 informants in 91 medical clinics providing care to HIV-infected persons under Title...
Organizations are increasingly externalizing work activities, but vary as to where and how they do so. Using a US employer survey, we examine within- and between-organization differences in the use of employment intermediaries such as temporary help...
Name generators used to measure egocentric networks are complex survey questions that make substantial demands on respondents and interviewers alike. They are therefore vulnerable to interviewer effects, which arise when interviewers administer questions...
Egocentric centrality measures (for data on a node’s first-order zone) parallel to Freeman’s [Social Networks 1 (1979) 215] centrality measures for complete (sociocentric) network data are considered. Degree-based centrality is in principle identical for...
This chapter reviews scholarship on how the matching of people to jobs is influenced by networks of interpersonal ties. By all accounts, that role is substantial on both the individual’s side and the employer’s side of the labor market. The mediation of...
