Interethnic contact is essential to move past out-group prejudice. However, prior work on the relationship between interethnic and attitudes mostly considers core social ties. Here, I consider ethnic majority adolescents’ weaker To do so, embrace a key feature of adolescent contemporary life: they overwhelmingly maintain relations online that snapshot hundreds Using combination survey data amon...

The proximity framework has attracted considerable attention in a scholarly discourse on the driving forces of knowledge exchange tie formation. It been discussed that too much is negatively associated with effectiveness relation. However, little known about key factors trigger formation boundaryspanning ties. Going beyond “dyadic” perspective dimensions, this paper argues factor bridging dista...

In the light of recent NZ government initiatives designed to increase occupational networking amongst K-12 teachers, this paper examines the potential of the Internet to meet this objective. The paper then investigates why teachers might ignore or avoid opportunities to form and benefit from weak ties online, despite claiming to regard such networking as professionally valuable. Finally, recomm...

This paper employs comparative longitudinal case study research to investigate why and how strong dyadic interfirm ties and two alternative network architectures (a ‘strong ties network’ and a ‘dual network’) impact the innovative capability of the lead firm in an alliance network. I answer these intrinsically cross-level research questions by examining how three design-intensive furnishings ma...