research-article | 27-April-2020
been distinguished based on exchange of information or resources (Thompson, 1967).
This empirical study considered how the benefits of brokerage are contingent on the independent–interdependent nature of the work role. That is, how the informal organization, operationalized as the intra-organizational communication network structure, corresponds with the formal work role for performance. The novelty and value in this approach is that when the formal and informal organizations have been linked to
Anssi Smedlund,
Emily W. Choi
Connections, Volume 40 , ISSUE 1, 47–59