NETWORKING SCHOLARS IN A NETWORKED ORGANIZATION Barry Wellman, Dimitrina Dimitrova, Zack Hayat, Guang Ying Mo and Lilia Smale ABSTRACT Long-standing traditions of long-distance collaboration and networking make scholars a good test case for differentiating hype and reality in dis- tributed, networked organizations. Our study of Canadian scholars in the GRAND research networks finds that they function more as connected individuals and less as members of a single bounded work group, often meeting their needs by tapping into diversified, loosely knit networks. Their internet use interpenetrates with in-person contact: the more they use one, the more they use the other. Despite digital networking, local proximity is important for collaboration and seniority for inter-team and interdisciplinary boundary spanning. Keywords: Networked-work; networked-research; networked- organization; Canada; social-network-analysis The world is becoming networked. Not only are computers, families, and friendships networked, but so are work and organizations (Rainie & Wellman, 2012). Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 40, 479À497 Copyright r 2014 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN: 0733-558X/doi:10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040024 479