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Phys.org: How Can Women Build High-status Networks?
Originally found at Phys.org.
These findings come from research by Gianluca Carnabuci, professor of organizational behavior at ESMT Berlin, who—alongside his colleagues Carla Rua-Gomez from Skema Business School and Martin C. Goossen from Old Dominion University—explored the impact of gender when it comes to building high-status networks in the workplace.
Previous research had shown that it is harder for women to gain access to their organization's high-status networks, which is consequential because high-status connections can boost one's performance and career outcomes. What prior research did not tell us, however, is which factors might help women build high-status connections.
To address this question, the researchers collected data on how people formed collaboration ties within the R&D laboratories of the 42 largest pharmaceutical companies over a 25-year period (1985–2010). Through this large-scale data set, they studied who succeeded at entering the collaboration network of the highest-status colleagues in their lab (the lab's "star" scientists), and how they did so.
Continue reading the original article at Phys.org.
Read the original research in Academy of Management Journal.
Learn more about the AOM Scholars and explore their work:
- Carla Rua-Gomez, SKEMA Business School
- Gianluca Carnabuci, ESMT Berlin
- Martin C. Goossen, Old Dominion University