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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
Author : Lukas Kocher
Published in: Informal Networks and Organizational Change
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
The role of informal networks within organizations is deemed as particularly relevant and therefore widely discussed in corresponding academic research as well as the managerial discourse (Waldstrøm, 2001; Katz, Lazer & Arrow, 2010). However, the interrelation between formal and informal organizational structures seems under-researched (Foss, Husted & Michailova 2010; Hannah & Robertson, 2015). At the same time, the necessity as well as the strive for change is regarded as an important feature of organizational practice (Barchiesi, Battistoni, Iacobone & La Bella, 2008).