Control loss and Fayol's gangplanks Export

@article{Friedkin:2001, abstract = {Williamson's (1971) model of control loss in organizational hierarchies describes the cumulative decay of influence of superiors over subordinates who are separated by a number of hierarchical levels in the chain-of-command. This paper shows that control loss may be deduced from a network theory of social influence, and it shows that ties among actors at the same hierarchical level--Fayol's gangplanks--may constrain control loss in organizational hierarchies. The structural mitigation of control loss by Fayol's gangplanks increases with superiors' span of control and depends on their capacity to maintain influence upon immediate subordinates in the presence of the lateral influences among subordinates.}, author = {Friedkin, Noah E. and Johnsen, Eugene C.}, citeulike-article-id = {3177079}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8733(02)00012-6}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VD1-45X2TCK-1/2/d4f07a9f9e93d68478eb4af0961ce8aa}, comment = {Fayol's gangplanks overview article.}, doi = {10.1016/S0378-8733(02)00012-6}, journal = {Social Networks}, keywords = {hierarchy, loss\_of\_control, optimality, organization\_theory, span\_of\_control}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {395--406}, posted-at = {2008-08-31 21:24:36}, priority = {2}, title = {Control loss and Fayol's gangplanks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8733(02)00012-6}, volume = {24}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - Friedkin:2001 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3177079 N2 - Williamson's (1971) model of control loss in organizational hierarchies describes the cumulative decay of influence of superiors over subordinates who are separated by a number of hierarchical levels in the chain-of-command. This paper shows that control loss may be deduced from a network theory of social influence, and it shows that ties among actors at the same hierarchical level--Fayol's gangplanks--may constrain control loss in organizational hierarchies. The structural mitigation of control loss by Fayol's gangplanks increases with superiors' span of control and depends on their capacity to maintain influence upon immediate subordinates in the presence of the lateral influences among subordinates. IS - 4 JF - Social Networks EP - 406 TI - Control loss and Fayol's gangplanks VL - 24 SP - 395 KW - hierarchy KW - loss_of_control KW - optimality KW - organization_theory KW - span_of_control N1 - Fayol's gangplanks overview article. AU - Friedkin, Noah AU - Johnsen, Eugene PY - 2002/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8733(02)00012-6 ER -