Níveis de Complexidade e Inserção em uma Rede Social de Comunidades Terapêuticas

• Main Authors: Beatris Kemper Fernandes, Luis Gabriel Abravanel Santos, Bruno Henrique Rocha Fernandes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) 2014-07-01
• Series: RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
• Subjects: work levels; social networks; drug rehab centers.
• Online Access: http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_1483.pdf
• ISSN: 1415-6555; 1982-7849

There are several studies about the intensity of the relationships and strength of actors in a network within an organizational scope, but only a few include the concept of work levels. Thus, we conducted a multilevel survey in a network of 38 drug rehab centers (Comunidades Terapêuticas [CT]) in the Region of Curitiba, Brazil. We investigated the CT leader’s work level and the positioning of the CT in an intraorganizational net (when belonging to multi-branch institutions) within the network and with institutions beyond this network. High degrees of work levels were associated with internal network centrality (inDegree) and coordination with actors outside the network; intra-network positioning did not correlate with work levels. Higher work level leaders belonged to organizations with central positions in the network; they also manage more contacts outside the network. The correlation between the leaders’ work levels and organization centrality in the network does not necessarily mean a causal relationship. We merely stated that the relationship exists and that probably the two movements occur simultaneously.