Everything about Relational

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: RelationalA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and OrganizingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Lord of the FliesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive AdvantageCited 34,152 times
5. Go sideways: Codd's theoremA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: RelationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage

  Jeffrey H. Dyer, Harbir Singh · 1998 · The Academy of Management Review · 34,152 citations

• A relational model of data for large shared data banks

  E. F. Codd · 1970 · Communications of the ACM · 5,137 citations

• Relational Aggression, Gender, and Social-Psychological Adjustment

  Nicki R. Crick, Jennifer K. Grotpeter · 1995 · Child Development · 3,196 citations

• Consumer Trust, Value, and Loyalty in Relational Exchanges

  Deepak Sirdeshmukh, Jagdip Singh, Barry Sabol · 2002 · Journal of Marketing · 2,884 citations

• Do formal contracts and relational governance function as substitutes or complements?

  Laura Poppo, Todd Zenger · 2002 · Strategic Management Journal · 2,840 citations

• Progress on a cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion.

  Richard S. Lazarus · 1991 · American Psychologist · 2,522 citations

• Manifesto for a Relational Sociology

  Mustafa Emirbayer · 1997 · American Journal of Sociology · 2,419 citations

• Interdependency, Contracting, and Relational Behavior in Marketing Channels

  Robert F. Lusch, James R. Brown · 1996 · Journal of Marketing · 2,317 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing

  Diane E. Bailey, Samer Faraj, Pamela J. Hinds · 2022 · Organization Science · 300 citations

• Social media induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and phubbing: Behavioural, relational and psychological outcomes

  Anushree Tandon, Amandeep Dhir, Shalini Talwar · 2022 · Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 175 citations

• Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

  Austin Himes, Barbara Muraca, Christopher B Anderson · 2023 · BioScience · 172 citations

• “Making Out” While Driving: Relational and Efficiency Games in the Gig Economy

  Lindsey D. Cameron · 2022 · Organization Science · 171 citations

• RRNet: Relational Reasoning Network With Parallel Multiscale Attention for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

  Runmin Cong, Yumo Zhang, Leyuan Fang · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 169 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding · 1954
• Men are From Mars, Women are From VenusJohn Gray, John Gray · 1992
• The Hate U GiveAngie Thomas, Angie Thomas · 2017
• Strategic Planning for Public RelationsRonald D. Smith · 2002
• Notes of a Native SonJames Baldwin · 1955
• The Dance of AngerHarriet Goldhor Lerner · 1985
• The Summer I Turned PrettyJenny Han · 2000
• Como Europa subdesarrollo a AfricaWalter Rodney, Walter Rodney · 1972

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🔗 Related topics

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