WHO ARE EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL REFERENTS? USING A NETWORK PERSPECTIVE TO DETERMINE REFERENT OTHERS.

A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

1954 • 18,417 citations

Inequity In Social Exchange

1965 • 10,134 citations

A Social Information Processing Approach to Job Attitudes and Task Design

1978 • 4,864 citations

The attraction paradigm

1972 • 4,186 citations

Power in organizations

1981 • 3,546 citations

Overall job satisfaction: How good are single-item measures?

1997 • 2,933 citations

Social Contagion and Innovation: Cohesion versus Structural Equivalence

1987 • 2,380 citations

Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior

1988 • 1,766 citations

Being in the Right Place: A Structural Analysis of Individual Influence in an Organization

1984 • 1,529 citations

Assessing the Political Landscape: Structure, Cognition, and Power in Organizations

1990 • 1,400 citations

Interpersonal attraction in exchange and communal relationships.

1979 • 1,397 citations

Feedback as an individual resource: Personal strategies of creating information

1983 • 1,258 citations

The Politics of Organizational Decision-Making.

1976 • 1,211 citations

Social Comparison Processes: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives.

1979 • 1,137 citations

Predicting with networks: Nonparametric multiple regression analysis of dyadic data

1988 • 1,005 citations

Power, Social Influence, and Sense Making: Effects of Network Centrality and Proximity on Employee Perceptions

1993 • 988 citations

Progress in Small Group Research

1990 • 945 citations

NEWCOMER INFORMATION SEEKING: EXPLORING TYPES, MODES, SOURCES, AND OUTCOMES.

1993 • 868 citations

Network Studies of Social Influence

1993 • 836 citations

Group performance and intergroup relations in organizations.

1992 • 680 citations

The Politics of Organizational Decision-Making

2014 • 680 citations

Social comparison in everyday life.

1992 • 638 citations

Attitudes Toward New Organizational Technology: Network Proximity as a Mechanism for Social Information Processing

1991 • 622 citations

Group influences on individuals in organizations.

1992 • 584 citations

Interpersonal relationships and task performance: An examination of mediation processes in friendship and acquaintance groups.

1997 • 537 citations

Group Cohesiveness in the Industrial Work Group.

1955 • 463 citations

Interorganization Contagion in Corporate Philanthropy

1991 • 462 citations

Climate and culture: Interaction and qualitative differences in organizational meanings.

1990 • 416 citations

Borgatti, Stephen; Martin Everett i Lin Freeman. UCINET IV. Network Analysis Software. Version 1.0. Columbia: Analytic Technologies, 1992

1995 • 410 citations

An examination of referents used in the evaluation of pay

1974 • 375 citations

The relational basis of attitudes.

1988 • 344 citations

Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging

1990 • 318 citations

Impression Management in the Feedback-Seeking Process: A Literaturereview and Research Agenda

1991 • 313 citations

Personal and Situational Determinants of Referent Choice

1992 • 258 citations

An approach for relating social structure to cognitive structure

1986 • 250 citations

Organizational equity perceptions, employee job satisfaction, and departmental absence and turnover rates

1979 • 210 citations

Friendship Patterns and Culture: The Control of Organizational Diversity

1990 • 193 citations

"SECRET TESTS".

1984 • 187 citations

The preservation of self in everyday life: The effects of performance expectations and feedback context on feedback inquiry

1990 • 186 citations

RELATIONS BETWEEN SITUATIONAL FACTORS AND THE COMPARATIVE REFERENTS USED BY EMPLOYEES.

1986 • 173 citations

Social comparisons and pay evaluations: Preferences for same-sex and same-job wage comparisons

1985 • 172 citations

The interpersonal structure of decision making: A social comparison approach to organizational choice

1990 • 169 citations

Influence, Leadership, Control

1965 • 168 citations

Relations between job facet comparisons and employee reactions

1986 • 153 citations

Predicting the structure of a communications network from recalled data

1982 • 148 citations

Intraorganizational Networks: The Micro Side

1994 • 111 citations

Social Contagion and Multiplexity Communication Networks as Predictors of Commitment and Role Ambiguity

1989 • 110 citations

Social comparison and outcome evaluation in group contexts.

1987 • 90 citations

Social Comparison Processes in Organizations

1977 • 88 citations

Social comparison processes.

2004 • 87 citations

Social worlds, individual differences, and implementation

1991 • 84 citations

Social Cognition in Context: Some Applications of Social Network Analysis

1994 • 49 citations

On the Visibility of Wage Referents

1982 • 48 citations

The snowball effect

1990 • 29 citations