People approach pleasure and avoid pain. To discover the true nature of approach–
avoidance motivation, psychologists need to move beyond this hedonic principle to the …

Although rational choice theory has made considerable advances in other social sciences,
its progress in sociology has been limited. Some sociologists' reservations about rational …

Employees develop exchange relationships both with organizations and immediate
superiors, as evidenced by research on perceived organizational support (POS) and leader …

Sociologists today are faced with a fundamental dilemma: whether to conceive of the social
world as consisting primarily in substances or processes, in static" things" or in dynamic …

A phenomenon of the last 20 years has been the rapid rise of the network form of
governance. This governance form has received significant scholarly attention, but. to date …

Research and theory on leader-member exchange (LMX) is reviewed and categorized
according to antecedents and consequences of LMX. The review demonstrates that LMX is …

When a computer network connects people or organizations, it is a social network. Yet the
study of such computer-supported social networks has not received as much attention as …

Granovetter's (1973, 1974)" strength-of-weak-ties" argument has led to fruitful research on
how individuals are matched to jobs in market economies. In analyzing the institution for …

The formation of a network is determined by the opposition of two forces. The first is the
reproduction of network structure as a general social resource for network members. The …

Theory supporting the key premise of the leader-member exchange (LMX) approach to
leadership, that leaders differentiate between subordinates, has not been fully developed …