Troester, Christian, Parker, Andrew, Van Knippenberg, Daniel L and Sahlmuller, Ben (2019). The Coevolution of Social Networks and Thoughts of Quitting. Academy of Management Journal, 62 (1), pp. 22-43.
Abstract
Research has shown that employees who occupy more central positions in their organization’s network have lower turnover. As a result, scholars commonly interpret turnover as the consequence of social networks. Based on conservation of resources theory, we propose an alternative coevolution perspective that recognizes the influence of changes in individuals’ social network position on their thoughts of quitting (the consideration of turnover), and which also posits that thoughts of quitting shape individuals’ agency in maintaining and changing their social network. Extending previous research, we predict that creation (dissolution) of both friendship ties and advice ties are negatively (positively) related to subsequent thoughts of quitting. We then develop and test the novel hypotheses that for friendship ties, thoughts of quitting are positively related to tie retention and negatively related to tie creation (leading to network stasis), whereas for advice ties thoughts of quitting are negatively related to tie retention and positively related to tie creation (leading to network churn). In a longitudinal network analysis that assessed 121 employees across three time points, we find support for our hypotheses that thoughts of quitting affect network changes, but do not find that network changes affect thoughts of quitting.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.0914 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Work & Organisational Psychology College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School |
Additional Information: | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | social networks,turnover intention,General Business,Management and Accounting,Management of Technology and Innovation,Business and International Management,Strategy and Management |
Publication ISSN: | 0001-4273 |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 07:57 |
Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2018 11:25 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2019-02-01 |
Published Online Date: | 2018-03-02 |
Accepted Date: | 2018-02-28 |
Authors: |
Troester, Christian
Parker, Andrew Van Knippenberg, Daniel L ( ![]() Sahlmuller, Ben |
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