eprintid: 10154014
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datestamp: 2022-08-19 08:37:08
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creators_name: Brands, Raina
creators_name: Ertug, Gokhan
creators_name: Fonti, Fabio
creators_name: Tasselli, Stefano
title: Theorizing Gender in Social Network Research: What We Do and What We Can Do Differently
ispublished: pub
divisions: C05
divisions: F49
divisions: B04
divisions: UCL
keywords: Social Sciences, Business, Management, Business & Economics, WOMEN, SELF, SEX, STEREOTYPES, RACE, STRATEGIES, POWER, MEN, PERSPECTIVE, PERCEPTIONS
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abstract: We review the ways in which gender is theorized in social network research and propose an alternative approach for future research to consider. To assess “what we do,” we undertake an evaluative review. In that review, we first examine how gender is typically theorized in structural approaches to social network research. Then, in greater detail, we review social network research that affords more diversity into such theorizing. We organize this more detailed review around a framework that is based on the level of analysis at which the implications of gender are invoked (cognitive, behavioral) and the focus of relational mechanisms that are used (ego based, alter based). Following this review of “what we do,” we consider “what we can do differently” by reflecting on the state of the literature and proposing a broad agenda, which we see as an alternative to many of the current approaches. We illustrate the implications of this alternative using four research topics and approaches.
date: 2022-07-21
date_type: published
publisher: Taylor & Francis
official_url: https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2020.0370
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1970465
doi: 10.5465/annals.2020.0370
lyricists_name: Brands, Raina
lyricists_id: RABRA66
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: The Academy of Management Annals
volume: 16
number: 2
pagerange: 588-620
pages: 33
issn: 1941-6067
citation:        Brands, Raina;    Ertug, Gokhan;    Fonti, Fabio;    Tasselli, Stefano;      (2022)    Theorizing Gender in Social Network Research: What We Do and What We Can Do Differently.                   The Academy of Management Annals , 16  (2)   pp. 588-620.    10.5465/annals.2020.0370 <https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2020.0370>.       Green open access   
 
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