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Efficient structures for innovative social networks / William S. Lovejoy in Management science, Vol. 56 N° 7 (Juillet 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 7 (Juillet 2010) . - pp. 1127-1145 Titre : Efficient structures for innovative social networks Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : William S. Lovejoy, Auteur ; Amitabh Sinha, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp. 1127-1145 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Innovation  Ideation  Social  networks Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : What lines of communication among members of an organization are most productive in the early, ideation phase of innovation? We investigate this question with a recombination and selection model of knowledge transfer operating through a social network. We find that ideation is accelerated when people in the organization dynamically churn through a large (ideally the entire population) set of conversational partners over time, which naturally begets short path lengths and eliminates information bottlenecks. Group meetings, in which the content of conversations is available to all for consideration, are another way to learn in parallel and accelerate the ideation process, although for complex problems they may not offer significant advantages over the best decentralized networks. The idealized core-periphery graphs emerge as an important family on the time–cost efficient frontier. New sociometrics for the analyses of innovation processes emerge from this investigation. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/56/7.toc [article] Efficient structures for innovative social networks [texte imprimé] / William S. Lovejoy, Auteur ; Amitabh Sinha, Auteur . - 2010 . - pp. 1127-1145. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 7 (Juillet 2010) . - pp. 1127-1145 Mots-clés : Innovation  Ideation  Social  networks Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : What lines of communication among members of an organization are most productive in the early, ideation phase of innovation? We investigate this question with a recombination and selection model of knowledge transfer operating through a social network. We find that ideation is accelerated when people in the organization dynamically churn through a large (ideally the entire population) set of conversational partners over time, which naturally begets short path lengths and eliminates information bottlenecks. Group meetings, in which the content of conversations is available to all for consideration, are another way to learn in parallel and accelerate the ideation process, although for complex problems they may not offer significant advantages over the best decentralized networks. The idealized core-periphery graphs emerge as an important family on the time–cost efficient frontier. New sociometrics for the analyses of innovation processes emerge from this investigation. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/56/7.toc