Attributions of Power Across a Social Network
研究了行政决策和技术决策两个领域中,个体特征与情境因素对权力归因的影响,发现情境效应远强于个体特征,且正式地位和专业知识分别预测行政权力和技术权力。
This paper examines the relationship between individual and structural explanations of attributions of power across two domains: administrative decisions and technical decisions. An assessment is made of the relative importance of member level variates against contextual variates as determinants of perceived power. The results suggest that contextual effects are far stronger than member level variates. Among member level characteristics, an incumbent's formal status is found to be a primary determinant of his perceived administrative power, while his expertise is a better predictor of his perceived technical power. The formal structure outweighs the interaction network as a context for understanding attributions of power.