Social networks, cognitive style, and innovative performance: : A contingency perspective

• Autores: Gianluca Carnabuci, Bálint diószegi
• Localización: Academy of management journal, ISSN-e 0001-4273, Vol. 58, Nº 3, 2015, págs. 881-905
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Integrating insights from cognitive psychology into current network theory on the social capital of brokering and closed networks, we argue that cognitive style is a critical contingency explaining the relation between social network position and innovative performance. Based on a "complementary fit" argument, we posit that a social network rich in structural holes enhances the innovative performance of employees with an adaptive cognitive style; however, individuals with an innovative cognitive style are most innovative when embedded within a closed network of densely interconnected contacts. Using data on the individual cognitive styles and complete workplace social networks of all employees within a design and manufacturing firm, we show that our theorized contingency mechanism accounts for a large share of empirical variation in employee innovative performance over and above existing social network explanations