Status Incongruence among Boundary Spanners

Structure, Exchange, and Conflict

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5247488
AutoresWesley Shrum (0000-0001-5040-6584, Louisiana State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1990
Volumen55
Número4
Páginas496
Fecha de publicación1990-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2095803
OpenAlexW2333161285
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas23

The exchange of resources and perceptions of conflict among professional planners is examined as a function of the relation between their structural positions. Analysis of dyadic relations at federal, regional, state, county, and municipal levels of government revealed that structural features interact to produce characteristic exchange flows, and the exchange of resources among these professionals affects perceptions of conflict. Professionals at higher levels of government were more likely than those at lower levels to do favors and provide information, particularly when they were more central in the professional network. However, these exchange patterns (favors and information) were associated with conflict in relationships. I interpret this as a result of status incongruence in dyads that match actors at higher levels of government but lower organizational positions with actors at higher organizational positions but lower levels of government

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