TY - JOUR
T1 - Interorganizational resource networks
T2 - Formal patterns of overlap
AU - Galaskiewicz, Joseph
AU - Marsden, Peter V.
N1 - Funding Information:
Order of authorship is alphabetical. A previous version of this paper was presented at the session on social networks at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, September 5-9, 1977. Writing was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. SOC 75-I3 I 13; additional funds were provided by the University of Minnesota Computer Center. Special thanks are given to James Davis, Edward Laumann, Stephan Fienberg, Margaret Troha, and Rick Picard, for their comments on earlier drafts. Address reprint requests to Joseph Galaskiewicz, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455.
PY - 1978/6
Y1 - 1978/6
N2 - In this paper, we analyze an interorganizational resource network involving three resources-information, money, and support-and a broad range of 73 organizations in a medium size American community. Mutuality is strongest for information flows, and weakest for money flows. "Multiplex" patternings-flows of two media in the same direction-are found for all three pairs of resources, while "exchange" effects-flows of two media in opposite directions-involving information and money, and information and support, but not money and support, are also indicated. Moreover, the tendencies toward symmetry in the information and support networks are accentuated in the presence of one another. The analysis suggests that information flows play a crucial role in conditioning the flows of the other resources, and that they may be a precondition to the establishment of more elaborate interorganizational networks.
AB - In this paper, we analyze an interorganizational resource network involving three resources-information, money, and support-and a broad range of 73 organizations in a medium size American community. Mutuality is strongest for information flows, and weakest for money flows. "Multiplex" patternings-flows of two media in the same direction-are found for all three pairs of resources, while "exchange" effects-flows of two media in opposite directions-involving information and money, and information and support, but not money and support, are also indicated. Moreover, the tendencies toward symmetry in the information and support networks are accentuated in the presence of one another. The analysis suggests that information flows play a crucial role in conditioning the flows of the other resources, and that they may be a precondition to the establishment of more elaborate interorganizational networks.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0002677761&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0002677761&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0049-089X(78)90006-6
DO - 10.1016/0049-089X(78)90006-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002677761
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 7
SP - 89
EP - 107
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
IS - 2
ER -