Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen, Department of Sociology. I am the Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary Research and Training Center SCOOP: Sustainable Cooperation and a Board member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). 

My research focuses on problems of sustainable cooperation and how to prevent and solve them. My areas of expertise are the sociology of organizations, economic sociology, social network analysis, and social theory.

I currently teach mainly in the Research Master Behavioral and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen and in the Transdisciplinary PhD-Training Program Sustainable Cooperation (SCOOP).

• Best Book Award 2014
  American Sociological Association, Rationality and Society Section
  
• Best Book Award 2013
  Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
  
• Best Conference Paper Award 2012
  Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies
  
• Best Journal Paper Award 2012
  Group and Organization Management 
  
• Best Student Paper Award 2011
  International Network for Social Network Analysis
  
• Best Conference Paper Award 2005
  Academy of Management, Organization Development and Change Division
  
• Best Conference Paper Award 2004
  Irish Academy of Management, Strategic Management Track
  
• Best Dissertation Award 2000
  SNS-Bank and University of Groningen
  
• Best Article Selection 2000
  Handboek Interne Organisatie
  
  

• European Academy of Sociology (EAS)
  Elected member since 2010
• Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)
  Fellow 2001-2002
  Member of the Selection Committee (since 2006)

• Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI Lugano, Zwitserland)
  Guest professor in the Humanitarian Management and Logistics Executive Master Program (2009-2014)
• Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich, Zwitserland)
  Guest professor at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (2008-2009)
• Cornell University
  Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Sociology (1998)

• Teaching Transdisciplinarity: The TETRA-Initiative
  Main Applicant.
  Co-Applicants: Russell Spears, Ellen Janssen.
  Amount: ca. 350.000 Euro (Assistant Professor position,1 fte, four years)
  From: Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen (Teaching Innovation Fund)
  Year: 2017
• Jongeren in een veerkrachtige samenleving. Naar nieuwe arrangementen voor inclusiviteit en participatie (JOIN)
  Member core team.
  Main Applicant: Bas van Bavel.
  Amount: 2.500.000 Euro
  From: NWO (Startimpuls National Science Agenda, Route Veerkrachtige en Zinvolle Samenlevingen)
  Year: 2017

• Sustainable Cooperation - Roadmaps to Resilient Societies (SCOOP)
  Main Applicant.
  Co-Applicants: Naomi Ellemers, Russell Spears, Bas van Bavel, Martin van Hees, Tanja van der Lippe
  Amount: 18.800.000 Euro
  From: NWO (Gravitation Grant 024.003.025)
  Year: 2017
• Sustainable Labor Market Integration of First Generation Migrant Groups
  Co-Applicant.
  Main Applicants: Nina Hansen, Liesbet Heyse
  Amount: ca. 220.000 Euro (4-year PhD-position)
  From: Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen
  Year: 2017

• Resilience at a Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Coping with Social Devaluation
  Co-Applicant
  Other Co-Applicants: Russell Spears, Monicque Lorist, Jolien van Breen
  Amount: ca. 150.000 Euro (2 year Postdoc position)
  From: Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen
  Year: 2017

• Cross-border network governance for sustainable training in health care
  Co-Applicant.
  Other Co-Applicants: Liesbet Heyse, Francesca Giardini
  Amount: ca. 110.000 Euro (50% of 4 year PhD-position)
  From: NetwerkZon
  Year: 2017
  
• Urban Collective Living Arrangements – Golden Key to Sustainable Communities?
  Main Applicant.
  Co-Applicant: Louisa Firnenburg
  Amount: ca. 200.000 Euro (4 year bursary PhD-position)
  From: PhD-fund, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen
  Year: 2017
• Informal Social Networks and Organizational Inclusion: The Invisible Minority’s Dilemma
  Main Applicant.
  Co-Applicants: Sabine Otten, Julian Rengers
  Amount: ca. 200.000 (4 year bursary PhD-position)
  From: PhD-fund, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen
  Year: 2017
• Sustainable Collaborative Networks. Design, Dynamics, and Decay of Cooperation in a Multilevel Organizational Field
  Co-Applicant
  Other Co-Applicant: Liesbet Heyse
  Amount: ca. 110.000 Euro (50% of 4 year PhD-position)
  From: NetwerkZon
  Year: 2016
  

• Warsaw School of Data Analysis
  Co-Applicant.
  Main Applicant: Michal Bojanowski 
  Amount: 510.000 Euro
  From: European Social Fund
  Year: 2014
• Good Governance and Corruption of Public Leaders in Indonesia
  Co-Applicant.
  Other Co-Applicant: Mala Sondang Silitonga
  Amount: ca. 260.000 Euro (4 year PhD-position with tuition)
  From: World Bank Spirit Program, Bappenas Indonesia
  Year: 2013
• Organizational Governance and Sustainable Health Care in Indonesia
  Co-Applicant.
  Other Co-Applicant: Suwatin Miharti
  Amount: ca. 260.000 Euro (4 year PhD-position with tuition)
  From: World Bank Spirit Program, Bappenas Indonesia
  Year: 2013
• The Education Divide in Indonesia: Determinants of Unequal Access to and Quality of Education
  Co-Applicant. 
  Other Co-Applicant: Tatang Muttaqin
  Amount: ca. 260.000 Euro (4 year PhD-position with tuition)
  From: World Bank Spirit Program, Bappenas Indonesia
  Year: 2012
• Gossip and the Management of Reputation
  Co-Applicant.
  Other Co-Applicant: Francesca Giardini
  Amount: 13.000 Euro
  Amount: NIAS-Lorentz Program
  Year: 2012
• Self-Improvement Interventions in Organizations
  Co-Applicant.
  Other Co-Applicant: Gabriël Anthonio
  Amount: 150.000 Euro
  From: FranklinCovey bv and Stenden University of Applied Science
  Year: 2010
• Healthy Aging: Population and Society (HAPS)
  Co-Applicant.
  Other Co-Applicants: Inge Hutter and Ronald Stolk
  Amount: 4.200.000 Euro
  From: Board of the University of Groningen
  Year: 2009
• Graduate Program
  Main Applicant.
  Co-Applicant: Werner Raub
  Amount: 800.000 Euro
  From: NWO
  Year: 2009
• Gendered Humanitarian Careers
  Co-Applicant.
  Other Co-Applicants: Liesbet Heyse and Melinda Mills
  Amount: 45.000 Euro
  From: Board of the University of Groningen
  Year: 2007
• Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research
  Main Applicant.
  Co-Applicants: Tom Snijders and Victor Nee
  Amount: 100.000 Dollar
  From: Russell Sage Foundation, New York
  Year: 2006
• Network Dynamics in Organizations
  Main Applicant.
  Amount: 100.000 Euro (Postdoc Position, 1 fte, 4 years)
  From: Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Strategic Fund
  Year: 2006
• Reorganizations and Workplace Transformations in the Netherlands
  Main Applicant.
  Amount: 45.000 Euro
  From: NWO (Replacement Grant 400-05-704)
  Year: 2006
• Solidarity at work and informal networks within semi-virtual teams
  Main Applicant.
  Amount: 51.000 Euro
  From: NWO (MES 014-43-722)
  Year: 2003
• Governance by Reorganization
  Main Applicant.
  Amount: 1.500.000 Hfl (750.000 Euro)
  From: NWO (VIDI-Scheme 016.005.052)
  Year: 2000
• Time Competition, Flexible Contracts, and Intrahousehold Negotiation
  Main Applicant.
  Co-Applicants: Tanja van der Lippe and Arie Glebbeek (Aandachtsgebied Time Competition)
  Amount: 225.000 Hfl (112.500 Euro)
  From: NWO (490-24-060-C)
  Year: 2006

• International Sociology
  Member of the Editorial Board (since 2004)
• Social Network Analysis and Mining
  Associate Editor (since 2011)
  
• Sage Studies in International Sociology
  Member of the Editorial Board (2003-2006)
  
• Netherlands Journal of Social Sciences
  Member of the Editorial Board (2003-2004)

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RAFAEL WITTEK
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August 2022

University of Groningen • Department of Sociology
Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Rafael Wittek holds a PhD (cum laude) in Behavioral and Social Sciences (University of Groningen, 1999), and an M.A. (cum laude) in Sociology and Cultural Anthropology (University of Tübingen, 1991). Since 2001, he is a full professor of Theoretical Sociology at the Department of Sociology (University of Groningen), which he chaired until 2014. He held teaching appointments at Cornell University (U.S.A.), the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich (Switzerland), the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), and the Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland). 

He is the Scientific Director and principle investigator of the trans-disciplinary and inter-university research and training program Sustainable Cooperation – Roadmaps to Resilient Societies (SCOOP). In 2017 this initiative was awarded a ten year grant (18.8 M€) in the context of the Dutch government’s prestigious Gravitation Program.

Rafael Wittek’s research interests are in the fields of cooperation science, organization studies, economic sociology and social network research. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sociology (EAS), has successfully supervised 18 PhD students and is involved in 8 ongoing PhD projects.

He has (co-)authored more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and (co-)edited four Handbooks. Recent contributions appeared in Network Science, European Societies, Disasters, and Public Administration Review. His publications received multiple awards. 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cooperation
Sustainability and Resilience
Organizational Governance
Social Network Dynamics
Economic Sociology
Humanitarian Action
Policy Reform
Health and Well-Being
Gossip and Reputation

AWARDS

HONORS

GRANTS

TEACHING (SUMMARY OVERVIEW)

DOCTORAL THESIS SUPERVISION

MASTER THESIS SUPERVISION

LECTURES

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION (SELECTION)

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (CHRONOLOGICAL)

2022

1. Estevez, J., Wittek, R., Giardini, F. Ellwardt, L., Krause, R. (2022) When gossip shapes friendship: A network study of the effect of gossip information in the workplace. Social Network Analysis and Mining (accepted)

2021

2. Takács, K., Gross, J., Testori, M., Letina, S., Kenny, A. R., Power, E. A., & Wittek, R. P. M. (2021). Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: A review. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. B 376, no. 1838: 20200297.
3. Miharti, S., Wittek, R., Los, B., & Heyse, L. (2021). Community health center efficiency. The Impact of organization design and local context: the case of Indonesia. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 11 (7): 1197-1207
4. Rengers, J. M., Heyse, L., Wittek, R. P., & Otten, S. (2021). Interpersonal antecedents to selective disclosure of lesbian and gay identities at work. Social Inclusion, 9(4), 388-398.

2020

5. Teekens, T., F. Giardini, J. Zuidersma & Wittek, R. (2020). Shaping resilience: how work team characteristics affect occupational commitment in health care interns during a pandemic. European Societies, 23(sup1), S513-S529.
6. Lindenberg, S., R. Wittek, F. Giardini (2020). Reputation Effects, Embeddedness, and Gronvetter’s Error. Pp. 113-140 in Advances in the Sociology of Trust and Cooperation, edited by V. Buskens. Berlin: DeGruyter.
7. Muñoz-Herrera, M., Dijkstra, J., Flache, A., & Wittek, R. (2020). Collaborative production networks among unequal actors. Network Science (accepted).

2019

8. Heyse, L., Morales, F. N., & Wittek, R. (2019). Evaluator perceptions of NGO performance in natural disasters: Meeting multiple institutional demands in nongovernmental humanitarian aid projects. Disasters (in press).
9. Ellwardt, L., Wittek, R. P., Hawkley, L. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2019). Social network characteristics and their associations with stress in older adults: closure and balance in a population-based sample. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
10. Giardini, F., & Wittek, R. (2019). Silence is Golden. Six Reasons Why Gossip Does not Spread. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1120.
11. Giardini, F., & Wittek, R. (2019). Introduction: Gossip and Reputation: A Multidisciplinary Research Program. In: The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12. Giardini, F., & Wittek, R. (2019). Gossip, Reputation, and Sustainable Cooperation: Sociological Foundations. In: The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13. Giardini, F., & Wittek, R. (Eds.). (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
14. Muttaqin, T., Wittek, R., Heyse, L., & van Duijn, M. (2019). The achievement gap in Indonesia? Organizational and ideological differences between private Islamic schools. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1-31.
15. Rengers, J. M., Heyse, L., Otten, S., & Wittek, R. P. (2019). “It’s not always possible to live your life openly or honestly in the same way”–Workplace inclusion of lesbian and gay humanitarian aid workers in Doctors without Borders. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 320.
16. Silitonga, M. S., van Duijn, M., Heyse, L., & Wittek, R. (2019). Setting a Good Example? The Effect of Leader and Peer Behavior on Corruption among Indonesian Senior Civil Servants. Public Administration Review, 79(4), 565-579.

2017

17. Muttaqin, T., Wittek, R., Heyse, L., Van Duijn, M. (2017). Why Do Children Stay out of School in Indonesia? Indonesian Journal of Development Planning (Jurnal Perencanaan Pembangunan) 1 (2): 93-108.
18. Grow, A., Flache, A., Wittek, R. (2017). Global Diversity and Local Consensus in Status Beliefs: The Role of Network Clustering and Resistance to Belief Change. Sociological Science, November 6, 2017 DOI 10.15195/v4.a25
19. Oldenkamp, M., Bültmann, U., Wittek, R., Stolk, R., Hagedoorn, M., Smidt, N. (2017). Combining informal care and paid work: The use of work arrangements by working adult-child caregivers in the Netherlands. Health and Social Care in the Community 26 (1): e122-e131.
20. Wittek, R. (2017). Intraorganizational Networks. R. Alhajj and J. Rokne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (second edition). New York: Springer.
21. Oldenkamp, M., M. Hagendoorn, R. Wittek, R. Stolk, N. Smit (2017). The impact of older person's frailty on the care-related quality of life of their informal caregiver over time: results from the TOPICS-MDS project. Quality of Life Research 26 (10): 2706-1716.
22. Oldenkamp, M., M. Hagedoorn, R. Stolk, R. Wittek, N. Smit (2017). The Lifelines Cohort Study: A data source available for studying informal caregivers' experiences and the outcomes of informal caregiving. Journal of Compassionate Health Care 4 (6).

2016

23. Oldenkamp, M., Hagedoorn, M., Slaets, J., Stolk, R., Wittek, R., Smidt, N. (2016). Subjective burden among spousal and adult-child informal caregivers of older adults: results from a longitudinal cohort study. BMC Geriatrics 16:208.
24. Spiegel, T., Wittek, R., & Steverink, N. (2016). What Are the Pathways Linking the Disclosure of a Degenerative Eye Condition in the Workplace and Wellbeing? A Mixed Methods Approach. International Journal of Disability Management, 11, e3, 1–12.
25. Präg, P., R. Wittek, M.C. Mills (2016). The Educational Gradient in Self-Rated Health in Europe: Does the Doctor–Patient Relationship Make a Difference? Acta Sociologica (accepted).
26. Klijs, B., E. Kibele, L. Ellwardt, M. Zuidersma, R. Stolk, R. Wittek, C. Mendes de Leon (2016). Neighborhood Income and Major Depressive Disorder in a Large Dutch Population: Results from the LifeLines Cohort Study. BMC Public Health 16:773.
27. Montelongo, M. & R. Wittek (2016). Community Resilience: Sustained Cooperation and Space Usage in Collective Housing. Building Research & Information 44 (7) 764-774.
28. Labun, A., R. Wittek & C. Steglich (2016). The Co-evolution of Power and Friendship Networks in an Organisation. Network Science 4, 3, 364-384.
29. Van Veen, K. and R. Wittek (2016). Relational Signalling and the Rise of CEO Compensation. Long Range Planning 49 (4), 477-490.
30. Van Veen, K. & R. Wittek (2016). Over de averechtse effecten van de Wet Normering Topinkomens. Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken 32 (1), 19-34.
31. Visser, M., M. Mills, L. Heyse & R. Wittek (2016). Enabling work life balance in an unbalanced environment: Job autonomy and trust in management among humanitarian aid expatriates. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 1-23
32. Präg, P., R. Wittek, M. Mills (2016). Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Health in Cross-National Comparison. Social Science and Medicine 149, 84-92.
33. Oldenkamp, M., R. Wittek, M. Hagedoorn, R. Stolk, N Smidt (2016). Survey nonresponse among informal caregivers: effects on the presence and magnitude of associations with caregiver burden and satisfaction. BMC Public Health 16:480
34. Koster, F. and R. Wittek (2016). Competition and Constraint. Economic Globalization and Human Resource Practices in 23 European Countries. Employee Relations 38 (2), 286-303.

2015

35. Popping, R. and R. Wittek (2015). Success and Failure of Parliamentary Motions: A Social Dilemma Approach. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0133510. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133510
36. Ellwardt, L., T. van Tilburg, M. Aartsen, R. Wittek, N. Steverink (2015). Personal Networks and Mortality Risk in Older Adults: A Twenty-Year Longitudinal Study. PLOS One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0116731
37. Grow, A., A. Flache and R. Wittek (2015). An Agent-Based Model of Status Construction in Task Focused Groups. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18 (2) 4.
38. Nieto Morales, F., R. Wittek and L. Heyse (2015). Organizational Pathways to Compliant Reform Implementation: Evidence from the Mexican Civil Service Reform. Public Administration 93 (3), 646–662.
39. Nieto Morales, F., L. Heyse, M. del Carmen Pardo, R. Wittek (2014). Building enforcement capacity: Evidence from the Mexican civil service reform. Public Administration and Development 34, 389–405.
40. Heyse, L., A. Zwitter, R. Wittek, J. Herman (eds.). (2015). Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security: A Framework for Evidence-based Programming. London: Routledge.
41. Holzhacker, R., R. Wittek, and J. Woltjer (eds.) (2015). Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia. New York: Springer.
42. Muttaqin, T., L. Heyse and M. van Duijn, R. Wittek (2015). The Impact of Decentralization on Educational Attainment in Indonesia.Pp. 79-103 in Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia, edited by R. Holzhacker, R. Wittek, and J. Woltjer. New York: Springer.
43. Sondang Silitonga, M., L. Heyse, R. Wittek (2015). Institutional Change and Corruption of Public Leaders: A Social Capital Perspective on Indonesia. Pp. 233-258 in Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia, edited by R. Holzhacker, R. Wittek, and J. Woltjer. New York: Springer.
44. Miharti, S., R. Holzhacker, R. Wittek (2015). Decentralization and Primary Health Care Innovations in Indonesia. Pp. 53-78 Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia, edited by R. Holzhacker, R. Wittek, and J. Woltjer. New York: Springer.
45. Holzhacker, R., R. Wittek, J. Woltjer (2015). Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia. Pp. 3-23 in Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia, edited by R. Holzhacker, R. Wittek, and J. Woltjer. New York: Springer.

2014

46. Wotschack, P., A. Glebbeek & R. Wittek (2014). Strong boundary control, weak boundary control and tailor-made solutions: the role of household governance structures in work–family time allocation and mismatch. Community, Work & Family 17(4), 436-455.
47. Djundeva, M., M. Mills, R. Wittek, & N. Steverink (2014). Receiving instrumental support in late parent–child relationships and parental depression. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 70(6), 981-994.
48. Präg, P., M. Mills, and R. Wittek (2014). Income and Income Inequality as Social Determinants of Health: Do Social Comparisons Play a Role? European Sociological Review 30 (2): 218-229.
49. Korff, V., L. Heyse, M. Mills, N. Balbo, R. Wittek (2014). The Impact of Humanitarian Aid Context and Inpidual Features on Aid Worker Retention. Disasters 39(3), 522-545.
50. Wittek, R., F. Nieto Morales, P. Mühlau (2014). Evil Tidings: Are Reorganizations more Successful if Employees are Informed Early? Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 66 (1), Supplement, 349-367.
51. Wittek, R. (2014). Stakeholder Analysis: Towards Feasible Interventions. Pp. 149-170 in Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security: A Framework for Evidence-based Programming, edited by Heyse, L., A. Zwitter, R. Wittek, J. Herman. London: Routledge.
52. Heyse, L., A. Zwitter, R. Wittek, J. Herman. (2014). The need for evidence-based programming in humanitarian action. Pp. 1-11 in Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security: A Framework for Evidence-based Programming, edited by Heyse, L., A. Zwitter, R. Wittek, J. Herman. London: Routledge.
53. Wittek, R. and A. Zwitter (2014). From Theory to Analysis: H-AID Methodology. Pp. 43-52 in Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security: A Framework for Evidence-based Programming, edited by Heyse, L., A. Zwitter, R. Wittek, J. Herman. London: Routledge.
54. Heyse, L., A. Zwitter, R. Wittek, J. Herman. (2014). Conclusion. Pp. 189-194 in Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security: A Framework for Evidence-based Programming, edited by Heyse, L., A. Zwitter, R. Wittek, J. Herman. London: Routledge.
55. Wittek, R. (2014). Siegwart Lindenberg: Rationaliteit met een sociale ziel. Pp. 221-244 in Over Professoren. Een halve eeuw psychologie, pedagogiek en sociologie aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Onder redactie van H. Amsink en M. van Essen. Assen: Van Gorcum. 
56. Wittek, R. and R. Bekkers (2015). The Sociology of Altruism and Prosocial Behaviour. Pp. 579-583 in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition), edited by James Wright. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
57. Wittek, R. (2014). Intra-Organizational Networks. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, edited by R. Alhajj, J. Rokne. New York: Springer, p. 766-773.
58. Labun, A. and R. Wittek (2014). Structural Holes. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, edited by R. Alhajj and J. Rokne. New York: Springer, p. 2075-2083.

2013

59. Nieto Morales, F., R. Wittek, and L. Heyse (2013). After the Reform: Change in Dutch Public and Private Organizations. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 23: 735–754.
60. Wittek, R., T.A.B. Snijders, and V. Nee (2013). Rational Choice Social Research. In: Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research, ed. by R. Wittek, T.A.B. Snijders and V. Nee. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
61. Wittek, R., and A. van Witteloostuijn (2013). Rational Choice and Organizational Change. In: Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research, edited by R. Wittek, T.A.B. Snijders and V. Nee. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
62. Wittek, R. (2013). Netwerken in organisaties. In: Völker, B., H. Flap and G. Mollenorst (eds.). Sociale netweken. Vragen, antwoorden en onderzoek. Groningen: Noordhoff Uitgevers, Pp. 55-69. 
63. Wittek, R. (2013). Rational Choice. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Sociology. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/sociology.
64. Wittek, R. (2013). Rational Choice Theory. In: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Edited by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms. Newbury Park: Sage. 
65. Wittek, R., T.A.B. Snijders and V. Nee (eds.). (2013). The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
66. Korff, V., M. Zou, T. Zwart and R. Wittek (2013). Rationality and Society. Pp. 290-299 in Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights, edited by D.L. Brunsma, K.E. Iyall Smith and B.K. Gran. Boulder: Paradigm.
67. Wittek, R. (2013). Geen verlichtende publieke sociologie zonder wetenschappelijke kwaliteit. Sociologie 9 (2), 203-207.

2012

68. Ellwardt, L., C. Steglich, and R. Wittek (2012). The Co-evolution of Gossip and Friendship in Workplace Social Networks. Social Networks 34 (4): 632-633.
69. Ellwardt, L., R. Wittek, R. Wielers (2012). Talking About the Boss: Effects of Generalized and Interpersonal Trust on Workplace Gossip. Group and Organization Management 37 (4): 519-547.
70. Ellwardt, L., J. Labianca, R. Wittek (2012). Who Are the Objects of Positive and Negative Gossip at Work? A Social Network Perspective on Workplace Gossip. Social Networks 34 (2), 193-205.
71. Agneessens, F. and R. Wittek (2012). Where Do Intra-Organizational Advice Relations Come From? The Role of Informal Status and Social Capital in Social Exchange. Social Networks 34 (3), 333-345.

2011

72. Pauksztat, B. & R. Wittek (2011). Who Speaks Up to Whom? A Relational Approach to Employee Voice. Social Networks 33 (4), 303–316.
73. Pouwels, B., J. Siegers, J. Schippers, R. Wittek & P. Wotschack (2011). Gulzige organisaties en de verdeling van betaalde en onbetaalde arbeid binnen huishoudens. Mens & Maatschappij 86 (1), 5-33.
74. Pauksztat, B., M. van Duijn, and R. Wittek (2011). A “Special Attachment”? Voice and the Relational Aspects of Loyalty. International Sociology 26 (4), 524-546.

2010

75. Pauksztat, B. and R. Wittek (2010). Representative voice in different organizational contexts: a study of 40 departments of a Dutch child-care organization. International Journal of Human Resource Management 22 (10-12), 2222-2244.
76. Whitmeyer, J. and R. Wittek (2010). Inequalities in Network Structures. Social Science Research 39, 152-164.
77. Wittek, R. (2010). Komt een socioloog bij de dokter... Sociologie 6 (1), 94-101. 

2009

78. Wittek, R. and J. Armstrong. (2009). Culture, Cognition, and Conflict. The Case of the Bakiga-Banyoro Conflict in Uganda. Recht der Werkelijkheid (special issue on Legal Anthropology from the Low Countries, edited by A. Boecker, W. van Rossum and H. Weyers), 101-124.
79. Stolk, R., Hutter, I. and R. Wittek (2009). Population Aging Research. A Family of Disciplines. European Journal of Epidemiology 24 (11) 715-718.

2008

80. Agneessens, F. and R. Wittek (2008). Social Capital and Employee Well-Being. Disentangling Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Influence and Selection Mechanisms. Revue Francaise de Sociologie 49 (3), 613-637.
81. Wittek, R., T. van der Zee, P. Mühlau (2008). Client Acceptance Decisions of Dutch Auditing Partners. Journal of Management and Governance 12, 93-115.

2007

82. Thau, S., K. Aquino, R. Wittek (2007). An Extension of Uncertainty Management Theory to the Self: The Relationship between Justice, Social Comparison Orientation, and Antisocial Work Behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology 92 (1), 250-258.
83. Wotschack, P. and R. Wittek (2007). Negotiating Work and Household Demands. Effects of Conflict Management Strategies in Dutch Households on the Labor Supply of Male and Female Employees. Pp. 105-123 in Labour Market Transitions and Time Adjustment over the Life Course, edited by D. Anxo, C. Erhel, and J. Schippers. Amsterdam: Dutch University Press. 

2006

84. Fetchenhauer, D. and R. Wittek (2006). Solidarity in the Absence of External Sanctions: A Cross-Cultural Study of Educational Goals and Fair-Share Behavior. Pp. 191-206 in Solidarity and Prosocial Behavior. An Integration of Sociological and Psychological Perspectives, edited by D. Fetchenhauer, A. Flache, A. Buunk, S. Lindenberg. New York: Springer.
85. Wittek, R. (2006). Abnehmende Abstraktion, Idealtypen, Erklärungslogik und Theorienverständnis bei Weber und der erklärenden Soziologie im Vergleich. Pp. 419-443 in Integrative Sozialtheorie? Esser - Luhmann - Weber, edited by Rainer Greshoff and Uwe Schimank. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
86. Wittek, R. (2006). Governance from a Sociological Perspective. In: New Forms of Governance in Research Organizations - Disciplinary Approaches, Interfaces and Integration, edited by D. Jansen. Dordrecht: Springer. 

2005

87. Van de Bunt, G., R. Wittek, and M. de Klepper (2005). The Evolution of Intra-Organizational Trust Networks, The Case of a German Paper Factory: An Empirical Test of Six Trust Mechanisms. International Sociology 20(3), 339–369.

2004

88. Wittek, R. and A. van Witteloostuijn (2004). The Costs and Benefits of Reorganization, Re- structuring, and Organizational Change: Flexibility and Inertia Perspectives, and Illustrative Evidence from The Netherlands. The Netherlands Journal of Social Sciences 40 (3), 205- 211.
89. Wittek, R., G. van de Bunt (2004). Post-Bureaucratic Governance, Informal Networks and Oppositional Solidarity in Organizations. The Netherlands Journal of Social Sciences 40 (3), 295-319.

2003

90. Wittek, R., and A. Flache (2003). Rationale Wahl und Organisationstheorie. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 42, 55-87.
91. Wittek, R., M. van Duijn, and T. Snijders (2003). Frame Decay, Informal Power, and the Escalation of Social Control in a Management Team: A Relational Signaling Perspective. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 20, 355-380.
92. Wittek, R. (2003). Violations of Trust Norms and Strategies of Informal Social Control in Organizations. Pp. 168-195 in The Trust Process Within Organizations: Empirical Studies of the Determinants and Process of Trust Development, edited by B. Nooteboom and F.E. Six. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar. 

2002

93. Wittek, R. (2002). Theorienvergleich in den Sozialwissenschaften. Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften 12 (4), 533-535.

2001

94. Wittek, R. (2001). Mimetic Trust and Intra-Organizational Network Dynamics. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 25 (1), 109-138.
95. Wittek, R., M. van Duijn, and T. Snijders (2001). Informele netwerken en sociale escalatie van conflicten in een managementteam. Sociale Wetenschappen 44 (1), 48-67.
96. Wittek, R., and A. Flache (2001). Solidarität am Arbeitsplatz. In: Solidarität, Konflikt, Umwelt und Dritte Welt, H. Bierhoff and D. Fetchenhauer (eds). Opladen: Leske und Budrich, p. 149-182. 

2000

97. Wittek, R., H. Hangyi, M. van Duijn, and C. Carroll (2000). Social Capital, Third Party Gossip, and Cooperation in Organizations. In: The Management of Durable Relations. J. Weesie and W. Raub (eds). Amsterdam: ThelaThesis.
98. Wittek, R. and R. Wielers (2000). Organisatie'gossip'. In Het beste uit Handboek interne communicatie. O. Scholten (ed.). Alphen aan den Rijn: Samsom, p. 297-318.

1999

99. Wittek, R. (1999). Closed Structures, Open Structures, Stable Structures. Explaining Structural Form and Temporal Stability of Informal Social Networks in Organizations. Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique 63, July, 5-28.
100. Wittek, R. (1999). Interdependence and Informal Control in Organizations. Amsterdam: ThelaThesis.

1998

101. Wittek, R., and R. Wielers (1998). Gossip in Organizations. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 4 (2), 189-204.

1997

102. Wittek, R. (1997). Sociaal kapitaal en machtstrategieën in organisaties. Gedrag en Organisatie 10 (6), 357-371.
103. Wittek, R. (1997). Structures of Trust. A Re-Examination of the Kula Ring. Angewandte Sozialforschung 20 (1/2), 47-55.

1990

104. Wittek, R. (1990). Resource Competition and Violent Conflict: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Socioecological Approach. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 115, 23-44. 

1989

105. Klemm, E., and R. Wittek (1989). Codierung und Gruppierung von Netzwerkdaten. Pp. 93-112 in Netzwerkanalyse. Ethnologische Perspektiven, T. Schweizer (ed.). Berlin: Reimer. 

106. Schmidt, S. and R. Wittek (1989). Weltsystemtheorie und Netzwerkanalyse: Überblick und ethnologische Perspektiven. Pp. 185-198 in Netzwerkanalyse. Ethnologische Perspektiven, T. Schweizer (ed.). Berlin: Reimer. 

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