Informal Structures of Communication within Organizational Networks
Informal Structures of Communication within Organizational Networks

Author(s): Constantin Florin Domunco
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Network; communication network; informal network
Summary/Abstract: The second half of the twentieth century brings a new perspective of studying social phenomena of networks inside the organizations. The moment marks a general shift in terms of understanding the realities of organizational environment. It speaks of a move away from individualistic, essentialist and atomist explanations and an understanding of organizations in terms of relationships. Another line of research, prolific in the number of existing studies, analyzes organizational is the formal - informal axis. Research on this line have demonstrated a major influence of relations between informal structures of communication and the ability of employees to establish contacts and identify the information that travels over internal networks.To better understand these coordinates, this paper proposes to understand concepts as network, network communication and informal network and to outline the roles that social actors play in the different types of informal networks of communication.

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