Antecedents of competitive group formation intention in business education context. Issue 3 (9th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tripathi, Anshul; Bamel, Umesh Kumar; Paul, Happy; Gordon, David; Bamel, Nisha
• Is Part Of: International journal of organizational analysis. Volume 26:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 518
• Page End: 535
• Publication Date: 2018-07-09
• Subjects: Tie strength -- Trust -- Social networks -- Similarity -- Complementary specialization -- Group formation intention; Management -- Periodicals; Organization -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 658
• DOI: 10.1108/IJOA-05-2017-1162
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1934-8835

Abstract

Abstract : Purpose: This paper aims to understand the relationships of complementary specialization, cognitive trust, affective trust, tie strength and similarity with group formation intention. Design/methodology/approach: The data have been collected from 30 management students from a batch of 110 students of a premiere Indian business school. To assess the proposed relationship, multiple hierarchical regression was performed on collected data by using SPSS© 20. Findings: The obtained results exhibited cognitive trust, affective trust and tie strength as significant predictors of dyadic group formation intention, whereas similarity and complementary specialization were not found. Originality/value: The research on group formation is limited, and more particularly the functions of the above-mentioned factors on the group formation intentions of management graduates are yet to generalize. Therefore, present research is an early approach which tries to address the mentioned gap from a social network perspective and considers the group formation and social network literature.