UCL School of Management

Research seminar

Christina Fang, Stern School of Business (NYU)

Speaker

Date

Wednesday, 13 January 2016
10:00 – 11:30
Description

Organizational learning in evolving networks 

Building on the classic model of March (1991), we study how alternative network evolution logics (link, distance, random, performance) impact organizational learning and performance. We find that networks formed based on distance (such as homophily) consistently outperform those formed by links (ie rich-gets-richer).

Furthermore, the more attention an organization pays to ‘performance benchmarking’, the poorer its overall performance. Lastly, the continual introduction of new members has very little positive impact on overall performance across all logics.

 

Open to
PhD Programme
Staff
Last updated Tuesday, 12 January 2016