New Network Models for the Analysis of Social Contagion in Organizations: An Introduction to Autologistic Actor Attribute Models
dc.contributor.author | Parker, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Pallotti, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Lomi, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-02T11:57:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | Autologistic Actor Attribute Models (ALAAMs) provide new analytical opportunities to advance research on how individual attitudes, cognitions, behaviors, and outcomes diffuse through networks of social relations in which individuals in organizations are embedded. ALAAMs add to available statistical models of social contagion the possibility of formulating and testing competing hypotheses about the specific mechanisms that shape patterns of adoption/diffusion. The main objective of this paper is to provide an introduction and a guide to the specification, estimation, interpretation and evaluation of ALAAMs. Using original data, we demonstrate the value of ALAAMs in an analysis of academic performance and social networks in a class of graduate management students. We find evidence that both high and low performance are contagious, i.e., diffuse through social contact. However, the contagion mechanisms that contribute to the diffusion of high performance and low performance differ subtly and systematically. Our results help us identify new questions that ALAAMs allow us to ask, new answers they may be able to provide, and the constraints that need to be relaxed to facilitate their more general adoption in organizational research. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 20 April 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/10944281211005167 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124975 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2021. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
dc.subject | autologistic actor attribute model (ALAAM) | en_GB |
dc.subject | individual performance | en_GB |
dc.subject | diffusion | en_GB |
dc.subject | exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs) | en_GB |
dc.subject | social contagion | en_GB |
dc.subject | social influence | en_GB |
dc.subject | social networks | en_GB |
dc.subject | statistical models | en_GB |
dc.title | New Network Models for the Analysis of Social Contagion in Organizations: An Introduction to Autologistic Actor Attribute Models | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-02T11:57:33Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1552-7425 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Organizational Research Methods | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-03-01 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-03-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-03-02T10:47:46Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-04-27T09:30:22Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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