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Informal Socialization

Informal Socialization is a form of cultural socialization that occurs unintentionally through everyday interactions and lived experiences, distinguished from formal socialization by its spontaneous, unstructured, and implicit transmission of cultural norms, values, and behaviors within naturalistic social contexts.

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130

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96

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2017–2026

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68

Social Pressures in Informal Groups

Léon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back · The American Catholic Sociological Review · 1950 · 1.8K citations

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Creating supply chain relational capital: The impact of formal and informal socialization processes

Paul D. Cousins, Robert Handfield, Benn Lawson et al. · Journal of Operations Management · 2006 · 539 citations

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Chinese patterns of socialization: A critical review.

David Y. F. Ho · 1986 · 441 citations

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Knowledge Sharing in Interorganizational Product Development Teams: The Effect of Formal and Informal Socialization Mechanisms<sup>*</sup>

Benn Lawson, Kenneth J. Petersen, Paul D. Cousins et al. · Journal of Product Innovation Management · 2009 · 428 citations

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An affordance perspective of enterprise social media and organizational socialization

Dorothy E. Leidner, Ester Gonzalez, Hope Koch · The Journal of Strategic Information Systems · 2018 · 241 citations · Full text

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Authors

130

  1. CW
    Cas Wouters

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    3 publications · 268 citations

    3

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  2. KJ
    Kenneth J. Petersen

    North Carolina State University, United States

    2 publications · 967 citations

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  3. SH
    Sven Horak

    St. John's University, United States

    2 publications · 180 citations

    2

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  4. LF
    Léon Festinger

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 2K citations

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  5. DY
    David Y. F. Ho

    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    2 publications · 587 citations

    2

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Institutions

96

  1. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    288 citations

  2. Queen's University Belfast

    Belfast, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    967 citations

  3. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    967 citations

  4. St. John's University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    180 citations

  5. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

  6. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    967 citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    109 citations

  8. Kansas State University

    Manhattan, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

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Venues

  1. Theory Culture & Society

    3 publications · 268 citations

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  2. Discourse & Society

    2 publications · 57 citations

    2

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  3. Academy of Management Journal

    AMJ · 2 publications · 271 citations

    2

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  4. International Journal of Operations & Production Management

    IJOPM · 2 publications · 175 citations

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  5. Asia Pacific Journal of Management

    PJM · 2 publications · 180 citations

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