Work Ties and Friendship Ties: Reciprocal Influences? The Case Study of a Research Team
With the exception of the workplace friendships approach, most of the research work in management on friendship ties focuses mainly on their impact on the functioning of organizations. Being included in separate fields of research, these studies fail to provide a fully contextualized vision of the interactions between friendship ties and work ties in organizations. Based on the case study of a research team, this article proposes to clarify the reciprocal influences occurring between friendship ties and work ties in the workplace.