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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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14539: Integrating Social Networks and Relational Coordination as Complementary Methods

Friday, July 25, 2025
14:00 - 16:00 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B6-m3
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,Research
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We live in an increasingly interdependent world - socially, emotionally, economically, physically, environmentally, biologically and evolutionarily. As a result of interdependence, we need relationships to achieve our desired outcomes, especially in the context of growing complexity. However, relationships are at risk around the world due to the rise of remote work, technologically mediated communication, economic inequality, and political polarization. In this workshop, we focus on two approaches - Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Relational Coordination (RC) - that offer theories and methods for exploring relational challenges and solutions. SNA explains the broad structural complexities of networks among people or entities with the potential for greater focus by organizational scholars on organizational networks. RC theory and analytics focus on the communication and relationship ties through which work is coordinated from small teams to ecosystems, how these ties drive outcomes, and the design of organizational structures to support these ties. Although SNA and RC are two primary lenses and approaches used to assess relationships among people and organizations, they are rarely used together. Together, they offer the potential to better understand multilevel relational dynamics in organizations. The aim of this workshop is to build upon last year’s successful workshop to create an approach to relational analytics that jointly employs the theories and methods related to social networks and relational coordination. We will accomplish this goal by bringing leading scholars in each field together to interact with each other and with other academics and practitioners with an interest in the role of relationships in organizations.