ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Social Search, Smallworld, Field Experiment
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S6-km: the world is not small for everyone: inequity in searching for. Knowledge in organisations singh et al. (2010) Asocial or cognitive scenario: searcher is examining information she already knows in trying to identify in her mind who the experts may be on a certain topic (chain a) Cognitive and social scenario: searcher enlists the help of individuals acting as intermediaries to point the searcher toward the expert. Zoe zwiebelmann: variables determining periphery status: 1) expert-related centrality 2) tenure 3) gender. Expert-related centrality: length of the path through the network that has the lowest number of intermediaries between a searcher and a set of topic experts. Hypothesis 1: searchers who have low expert-related centrality, short tenure, or are in gender minority are less likely to pinpoint an expert in the first step of a search chain. 3. 2 impediment to effective search through intermediaries: role of.
