We conceptualize “perceived coworker creativity” as a resource that people seek to acquire through their relationships. Applying the Network Theory of Social Capital (NTSC), we examine whether perceiving a coworker as creative changes the closeness of the relationship an employee develops with this coworker and how being perceived as creative by others in the organization changes the weighted indegree centrality of this coworker in the organizational network over time. We also examine the role of gender and nationality similarity as moderators. We test our hypotheses in three studies: an experimental study of full-time employees, a longitudinal study of full-time employees over 8 weeks, and a longitudinal study of MBA students over 1 year. We find that employees tend to develop closer relationships over time with coworkers that they perceive as creative, and that this effect is generally stronger when these two individuals are of the opposite gender or different nationalities. Additionally, when more employees perceive a coworker as creative, it is more likely that this coworker will become more central in the network over time for those who belong to a minority group in terms of nationality.

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当认为同事有创造力时，会随着时间的推移影响社交网络：社会资本视角的网络理论

我们将“感知到的同事创造力”概念化为人们寻求通过人际关系获取的资源。应用社会资本网络理论（NTSC），我们研究了将同事视为有创造力的人是否会改变员工与该同事发展的关系的亲密程度，以及被组织中的其他人视为有创造力的人如何改变该同事的加权入度中心性随着时间的推移，在组织网络中。我们还研究了性别和国籍相似性作为调节因素的作用。我们通过三项研究来检验我们的假设：针对全职员工的实验研究、针对全职员工为期 8 周的纵向研究以及针对 MBA 学生为期一年的纵向研究。我们发现，随着时间的推移，员工倾向于与他们认为有创造力的同事建立更密切的关系，并且当这两个人是异性或不同国籍时，这种影响通常会更强。此外，当更多的员工认为某个同事具有创造力时，对于那些在国籍上属于少数群体的人来说，随着时间的推移，该同事更有可能在网络中变得更加核心。