Ajay Mehra
Biographic Data
| ID | 111330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ajay Mehra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ajay |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehra |
| SIGNATURE | MEHRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender, rank, and social networks on an enterprise social media platform
Audience perceptions of high‐status ties and network advantage
Social ties with high‐status others can be a potent signal of an individual's underlying quality and future promise. Individuals in competitive markets, therefore, have an incentive to publicly claim connections to high‐status others. However, cognitive limitations and biases can make social network connections difficult for observers to reliably discern, and claims to high‐status ties can go unrecognized by the audience. Our core contention is t…
Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks
Network Analysis in the Social Sciences
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network research across the physical and social sciences. For social scientists, the theory of networks has been a gold mine, yielding explanations for social phenomena in a wide variety of disciplines from psychology to economics. Here, we review the kinds of things that social scientists have tried to explain using social network analysis and provide a nutshell description of the …
The social identity and social networks of ethnic minority groups in organizations
Distinctiveness theory posits that patterns of social identity and friendship are based on numeric rarity within specific contexts. In ethnically diverse organizations, the theory predicts that members of the smaller ethnic group (relative to members of the larger ethnic group) will: (a) tend to identify and form friendships within their own ethnic group, and (b) lack access to well‐connected individuals in the network of friendship relations. Pr…
Naxalism in India
(2000). Naxalism in India: Revolution or terror? Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 37-66
Sensemaking in Organizations
The Nature of Sensemaking Seven Properties of Sensemaking Sensemaking in Organizations Occasions for Sensemaking The Substance of Sensemaking Belief-Driven Processes of Sensemaking Action-Driven Processes of Sensemaking The Future of Sensemaking
The social identity and social networks of ethnic minority groups in organizations
Distinctiveness theory posits that patterns of social identity and friendship are based on numeric rarity within specific contexts. In ethnically diverse organizations, the theory predicts that members of the smaller ethnic group (relative to members of the larger ethnic group) will: (a) tend to identify and form friendships within their own ethnic group, and (b) lack access to well‐connected individuals in the network of friendship relations. Pr…
Naxalism in India
(2000). Naxalism in India: Revolution or terror? Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 37-66
Audience perceptions of high‐status ties and network advantage
Social ties with high‐status others can be a potent signal of an individual's underlying quality and future promise. Individuals in competitive markets, therefore, have an incentive to publicly claim connections to high‐status others. However, cognitive limitations and biases can make social network connections difficult for observers to reliably discern, and claims to high‐status ties can go unrecognized by the audience. Our core contention is t…
Sensemaking in Organizations
The Nature of Sensemaking Seven Properties of Sensemaking Sensemaking in Organizations Occasions for Sensemaking The Substance of Sensemaking Belief-Driven Processes of Sensemaking Action-Driven Processes of Sensemaking The Future of Sensemaking
Naxalism in India
(2000). Naxalism in India: Revolution or terror? Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 37-66
The social identity and social networks of ethnic minority groups in organizations
Distinctiveness theory posits that patterns of social identity and friendship are based on numeric rarity within specific contexts. In ethnically diverse organizations, the theory predicts that members of the smaller ethnic group (relative to members of the larger ethnic group) will: (a) tend to identify and form friendships within their own ethnic group, and (b) lack access to well‐connected individuals in the network of friendship relations. Pr…
Network Analysis in the Social Sciences
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network research across the physical and social sciences. For social scientists, the theory of networks has been a gold mine, yielding explanations for social phenomena in a wide variety of disciplines from psychology to economics. Here, we review the kinds of things that social scientists have tried to explain using social network analysis and provide a nutshell description of the …
Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks
Audience perceptions of high‐status ties and network advantage
Social ties with high‐status others can be a potent signal of an individual's underlying quality and future promise. Individuals in competitive markets, therefore, have an incentive to publicly claim connections to high‐status others. However, cognitive limitations and biases can make social network connections difficult for observers to reliably discern, and claims to high‐status ties can go unrecognized by the audience. Our core contention is t…
Gender, rank, and social networks on an enterprise social media platform
Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Knowledge Management and Sharing (2 works) · Optimal distinctiveness theory (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)