Until now, most of the scholarly articles on organizational electronicnetworks have been analyzed from a methodological standpoint.

Furthermore, research on academic networks has been mainly studiedusing either co-citations or co-authorship data.Using a unique database, this article aims to transcend the puremethodological analysis in order to study the effects that the organizationalstructure and publication activities have on emails dynamics of theP.Catholic University of Chiles Social Science Schools. Our results aretwofold: on the one hand, we find a strong differentiation between thecommunication role of the official authority and that of the epistemic oscientific authority; on the other hand, we find an emerging tendency withinboth subgroups to generate collaborative and collegiate systems thatcoexist with more hierarchical and bureaucratic organizational forms. Wesuggest that the co-existence of these two coordination forms shows anongoing cultural and organizational change within this university-basedmilieu where academic recognition is not only obtained through teachingactivities but rather through scientific and research activities.Keywords: academic networks, email networks, collaboration, COINs,organizational structure, interdisciplinary, epistemic authority, Latin