...Thomas Koch; Stephanie Haber; Nora Denner; Benno Viererbl Purpose Informal communication plays a vital role in workplace functioning, yet research has largely overlooked how it shapes colleagues' perceptions of those who engage in it. This study addresses this gap by examining how the frequency...

...Franca Singh; Nora Denner Purpose This scoping review aims to systematically analyze research literature on informal communication in organizations, addressing fragmented research by synthesizing definitions, identifying predictors, and assessing the effects of informal communication. Design...

... as to an important extent informal communication activity has hardly been scrutinized by academic research to date. The objective of this paper is to address this gap and present evidence on the nature of informality in lobbying, specifically focusing on the functional expectations and uses that EU lobbying actors...

...Nora Denner; Thomas Koch; Benno Viererbl; Alicia Ernst Purpose This study examines the functions of informal communication in organizations. Informal communication can be characterized as any interaction within an organization in which two or more individuals assume personal roles rather than...

...Benno Viererbl; Nora Denner; Thomas Koch Purpose This study aims to analyze the structures, forms and functions of informal communication in telecommuting settings. Previous research on telecommuting has not considered the influence of telecommuting settings on informal communication, and research...