Browsing Stanford Sociology Technical Reports and Working Papers, 1961-1993 by Author "Cohen, Bernard P."

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    • Interdependence, Interaction, and Productivity 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo (2017-08-16)
      Group tasks require communication, but communication can be excessive and time-wasting. The authors develop propositions group productivity and interaction. High reciprocal interdependence in teams requires high levels of ...
    • Introduction to a Theory of Group Structure and Information Exchange 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Silver, Steven D. (2017-08-16)
      This theoretical paper develops a framework for relationships between group structure and information exchange. Status orders among group members are important in situations that lack well-developed practices for work and ...
    • Organization and productivity in R & D Teams: A Report of Research Findings 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo; Nobel, Darla R.; Shenhav, Yehouda A. (American Sociological Review, 1991)
      The authors report findings from 224 teams in Silicon Valley on the effects of factors on team productivity and innovativeness. The factors are of four types: interaction, team composition, team organization, and perceptions ...
    • Status Characteristics and Expectation States 
      Berger, Joseph; Cohen, Bernard P.; Zelditch, Morris Jr. (2015-07-19)
      This is the first statement of the theory of status characteristics and expectation states and a form of the manuscipt was published by the authors (1966). The theory generalizes the theory of performance expectations first ...
    • Status Characteristics and Expectation States: A Process Model 
      Berger, Joseph; Cohen, Bernard P.; Conner, Thomas L.; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2015-07-21)
      This technical report describes how status inequality can produce similar inequality of expectation states, and how the interaction process is affected by the status generalization process. It elaborates some ideas in the ...
    • Status Conditions of Self-Evaluation 
      Berger, Joseph; Zelditch, Morris Jr; Anderson, Bo; Cohen, Bernard P. (2017-08-24)
      This is a revision of TR#24. It expands the discussion of conditions for stability, adding the idea of cliques that support stable self-evaluations.
    • Status Processes in Permanent Work Groups 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Hooper, Jon; Zhou, Xueguang (American Sociological Review, 1991)
      This WP was published by Cohen and Zhou (1991).