The Multilevel Effects of Network Embeddedness on Interpersonal Citizenship Behavior
- Authors
- Chung, Myung-Ho; Park, Jeehye; Moon, Hyoung Koo; Oh, Hongseok
- Issue Date
- 12월-2011
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
- Keywords
- interpersonal citizenship behavior (ICB); social networks; centrality; transitivity; group density; multilevel analysis
- Citation
- SMALL GROUP RESEARCH, v.42, no.6, pp.730 - 760
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- Journal Title
- SMALL GROUP RESEARCH
- Volume
- 42
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 730
- End Page
- 760
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/111031
- DOI
- 10.1177/1046496411417732
- ISSN
- 1046-4964
- Abstract
- Interpersonal citizenship behavior (ICB) in organizations is an inherently relational and multilevel phenomenon. Using a multilevel framework, this study investigates the different levels of social network antecedents of ICBs. Specifically, the authors examine the effects of individual-level network characteristics (centrality and transitivity) and group-level network properties (density and centralization) on individuals' ICBs. From a sample of 846 individuals in 149 work groups, the authors find that individual centrality and the network density of a group increased group members' ICBs and note the positive joint effect of both predictors. Furthermore, consistent with their prediction, the tendency for individuals embedded in a local triad to display less ICB is greater in the decentralized group. This result shows a possible trade-off between structural positions in local and global networks in facilitating individuals' ICBs.
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