PERSPECTIVE—Shrouded in Structure: Challenges and Opportunities for a Friction-Based View of Network Research
质疑网络结构主导的研究范式，聚焦知识流动中的摩擦问题，分析摩擦如何影响不同网络结构下的知识转移，为管理和社会学研究者提供新的研究视角。
Whereas network ideas and approaches have become prominent in both the managerial and sociological literatures, we contend that the increasing emphasis on network structures and their evolution has distracted us from the important issue of whether and when networks actually work in the ways that our theories assume. In particular, we explore the well-established assumption that knowledge flows over network paths, with special attention to the role of friction when the supposed information transfer spans multiple dyads. Our analysis shows that friction is omnipresent and has implications at both the system and subsystem levels. More specifically, we present a rich set of research opportunities that addresses implications of friction for the variation of knowledge flows for different network structures and also for the distribution of knowledge among the actors within a particular network.