Modes of interdependence are weakly or negligibly intercorrelated across brokerage offices¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2 · i1 small
Currency · newest study 1974 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Social interdependence and workgroup process measures are unrelated to specialization measures, while role interdependence correlates weakly and negatively with specialization (r = -.36 or -.28). → Pennings 1974

Evidence¶

Pennings 1974¶

Pennings, Johannes M. (1974). Differentiation, Interdependence, and Performance in Formal Organizations. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED099988

q2 · i1 · associational · r1

Correlational analysis of questionnaire and profile data from 40 brokerage offices (Table 1, N=40). The article reports "a weak but consistent correlation between role interdependence and specialization" (r = -.36 or -.28), suggesting heterogeneous offices have fewer collaborative, role interdependent employees.

"While the measures of social interdependence and "workgroup process" are not related to the specializationmeasures, there is a weak but consistent correlation between role interdependence and specialization"

Discussion¶

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