Publications

2009 - 2009
Conference Presentation

Networks and Change Implementation in Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro

Keywords: Networks; Change; Organizations

April 2012
Article

Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change

By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro

We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Theory; Organizations; Change

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2014
Working Paper

The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty

By: Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino and Maryam Kouchaki

To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike... View Details

Keywords: Networking; Morality; Dirtiness; Power; Networks; Moral Sensibility; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence

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Aug 2010 - 2010
Conference Presentation

Power, Social Influence and Organizational Change: A Network Perspective

By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro

Keywords: Organizations; Change; Power and Influence

Article

The Integration of Psychological and Network Perspectives in Organizational Scholarship

By: Tiziana Casciaro, Sigal G. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, Cristina B. Gibson, David Krackhardt and Giuseppe Labianca

Although multiple disciplines have been applied to the study of organizations, organizational research is rarely interdisciplinary in the sense of two or more disciplines being linked in the joint analysis of organizational phenomena. The articles in this special issue... View Details

Keywords: Research; Organizations

May 2007 (Revised May 2010)
Teaching Note

Leading Change at Simmons (TN) Case Series

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Tiziana E. Casciaro

Keywords: Leadership; Change

June 2003
Teaching Note

Abelli and Saviotti at Banca Commerciale Italiana (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Tiziana E. Casciaro and Kathleen L. McGinn

Teaching Note for (9-402-043) and (9-402-044). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; Italy

December 2006
Article

When More Power Makes Actors Worse Off: Turning a Profit in the American Economy

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Tiziana Casciaro

Keywords: Profit; Economy; United States

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September 2007 (Revised May 2009)
Supplement

Leading Change at Simmons (C)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Tiziana E. Casciaro

Keywords: Change

September 2007 (Revised May 2009)
Supplement

Leading Change at Simmons (D)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Tiziana E. Casciaro and Kate Roloff

Keywords: Change