eprintid: 1466466
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creators_name: Badi, SM
creators_name: Li, M
creators_name: Pryke, S
title: The Influence of Communication Network Centrality on Individual Popularity
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F37
keywords: Centrality, individual popularity, social-network analysis (SNA), communication networks, construction project
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abstract: Individual popularity has been found to have a positive impact on individual performance, group performance and job satisfaction; however, there remains a limited understanding of the concept and its antecedents in construction projects. In this research study, we propose that the position an individual occupies in the project social network will influence his/her popularity. Although different types of networks exist in project environments (e.g., informal friendship networks), we focus on project-related information-exchange networks to capture individuals’ recurrent patterns of work-related communication. That is, our goal was to consider individuals’ structural positions within the project’s relatively formal, work-related communication network, rather than the more casual and less work-significant friendship network. A single-case study approach was adopted examining a road construction project in Baoshan City in China. Data collection involved the completion of a questionnaire by project participants, identifying their communication with, and their perception of the popularity of, other project actors. Analysis was based upon actor centrality (degree, betweenness, and closeness) within the communication and popularity networks. The findings supported the proposition and showed that communication network centrality is positively associated with popularity, such that individuals who are more central in the project communication network also assumed central positions in the popularity network. Degree centrality in the project communication network was found to be particularly salient in predicting popularity, underlying the social dominance of the ‘prominent disseminators’ who control a large amount of information resources.
date: 2016-09-20
publisher: Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
official_url: http://www.rics.org/uk/knowledge/research/conference-papers/the-influence-of-communication-network-centrality-on-individual-popularity/
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
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elements_source: Manually entered
elements_id: 1026433
isbn_13: 978-1-78321-160-9
lyricists_name: Badi, Sulafa
lyricists_name: Pryke, Stephen
lyricists_id: SBADI93
lyricists_id: SDPRY73
full_text_status: public
series: COBRA
volume: 2016
place_of_pub: Toronto, Canada
event_title: COBRA 2016
event_location: Brighton, UK
event_dates: 23 June 2015 - 28 June 2015
issn: 2398-8614
book_title: Proceedings of COBRA 2016
citation:        Badi, SM;    Li, M;    Pryke, S;      (2016)    The Influence of Communication Network Centrality on Individual Popularity.                     In:  Proceedings of COBRA 2016.    Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors: Toronto, Canada.       Green open access   
 
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