Date Available
7-26-2018
Year of Publication
2018
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
College
Business and Economics
Department/School/Program
Management
First Advisor
Dr. Ajay Mehra
Abstract
My research examines the importance of a particular form of cross-group brokerage in social networks wherein a person represents a bridge between his or her group and people belonging to a different group. Prior research on network brokerage and leadership emergence has failed to distinguish between brokerage in general and the kind of boundary-spanning between groups that is the focus of my research. Moreover, what we currently know about social network brokerage and leadership emergence comes either from highly abstracted laboratory-based work, or it comes research in relatively traditional work organizations with clear formal structures. It is unclear whether prior research from traditional organizational settings can be applied to nontraditional organizations in the so-called “creative industries,” which are the focus of my research. The core hypotheses my research examines are: (1) Do individuals whose friendship networks help them bridge between groups emerge as leaders in the eyes of others? And (2) Are people who are socially perceptive and socially skilled better at leveraging such boundary-spanning positions to win nominations of leadership from others? Data from the study come from interview and survey data from four different musical orchestras based in Korea.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2018.323
Recommended Citation
Jun, Kiho, "BOUNDARY SPANNING AND LEADERSHIP PERCEPTIONS IN CREATIVE ORGANIZATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM FOUR ORCHESTRAS" (2018). Theses and Dissertations--Management. 12.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/management_etds/12
