Bridging Cultural Holes in Organizations: The Dynamic Structure of Social Networks and Organizational Vocabularies Within and Across Subunits

The authors express their sincere appreciation to William Ocasio for his excellent editorial guidance and to three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. The authors thank also Steve Borgatti, Lauren C. Howe, Jochen Menges, Nicolas Bastardoz, Caterina Liberati, and Viviana Amati for their useful feedback or advice. The paper benefited from conference presentations at the “Networks of Meanings—Recent Research on Structure, Content and Meaning Networks” symposium at the 2018 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, and at the sub-theme on “Multi-level Network Research: The Relationship between Intra- and Interorganizational Networks” at the European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia. The paper benefited from presentations and research talks given by the first author at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; ETH Zurich; the University of Zurich; the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano; HEC Paris; and the University of Bologna and by the second author at the University of Manchester.