Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) Janet Fulk , Peter Monge , Y. Xu , Marc Van De Mieroop
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA, Northwestern University
ANO 2021
TIPO Book
PERIÓDICO Human Communication Research
ISSN 0360-3989
E-ISSN 1468-2958
EDITORA Sage Publications (United States)
DOI 10.1093/hcr/hqaa009
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-14
MD5 596F15AC3360911023E224D3FAFF75B1

Resumo

This study examined the influences of ecological factors on the dissolution of affiliation ties in the International Communication Association (ICA). The affiliation network in this study represented the connections between ICA members and ICA divisions and interest groups. Guided by insights from organizational ecology and network theory, this research used a multilevel discrete-time event history analysis to test how ecological factors influenced active ICA members' decisions to drop affiliation ties. An empirical analysis was conducted using a longitudinal sample of 1,282 active members and 23 divisions and interest groups from 2009 to 2015. The results showed that the likelihood of tie dissolution was significantly constrained by the length of an individual's organizational membership, the division or interest group's fuzzy density (generally considered as a proxy for legitimacy perceptions), and the group's contrast (one measure of the level of clarity vs ambiguity of a group's identity). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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