Social Network Position and Its Relationship to Performance of IT Professionals.' The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline 13

victor.prybutok.unt.edu An important informing channel for information technology professionals and other knowledge workers is their social networks. Taking the perspective of the transdisciplinary social capital the-ory, this study explores the relationship between information technology professionals ’ social network positions and job performance. We operationalized their network positions as their net-work constraint, i.e., inability to bridge structural holes in social networks. Social network analy-sis on data collected from information technology professionals at a large defense company re-vealed a network woven by 371 people. Logistic regression results showed a significant, inverse relationship between performance and constraint. Therefore, network constraint appears to be an informer/client characteristic that influences his/her ability to take advantage of social networks as an informing channel and to improve performance