Structural holes capstone, cautions, and enthusiasms

RS Burt - Personal networks: Classic readings and new …, 2021 - books.google.com
Adjunct to the preceding excerpt from Structural Holes, this chapter's goal is to provide a
capstone summarizing where we are on Structural Holes' subject of network brokerage, and …

Reflections On 'The Focused Organization of Social Ties' and Its Implications for Bonding and Bridging

SL Feld, DT Knighton, A McGail - Personal Networks: Classic …, 2021 - books.google.com
We appreciate this opportunity to reiterate and more fully explicate the “focus theory” as first
presented in “The Focused Organization of Social Ties”(Feld 1981) and extended in “Social …

Embedded brokerage: Hubs versus locals

RS Burt, J Merluzzi - Contemporary perspectives on organizational …, 2014 - emerald.com
The structural holes to which a person is connected are embedded in a broader
organization or market. High status in the broader context signals a reputation that can make …

Network brokerage and the perception of leadership

RS Burt, RE Reagans, HC Volvovsky - Social Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
We renovate a classic experiment to define a research platform that provides data on
network behavior and the causal effect of access to structural holes. Our hypothesis is that …

Measuring mediation and separation brokerage orientations: A further step toward studying the social network brokerage process

TJ Grosser, D Obstfeld, G Labianca… - Academy of …, 2019 - journals.aom.org
Brokerage has assumed an increasingly important role in social network research and
organizing more generally. Social network research has traditionally defined brokerage in …

Brokerage as a process: Decoupling third party action from social network structure

D Obstfeld, SP Borgatti, J Davis - Contemporary perspectives on …, 2014 - emerald.com
We argue for a broadened approach to brokerage by distinguishing between brokerage
emphasizing a particular structural pattern in which two otherwise disconnected alters are …

An altercentric perspective on the origins of brokerage in social networks: How perceived empathy moderates the self-monitoring effect

AM Kleinbaum, AH Jordan… - Organization Science, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
Social structure matters in organizational life, but our understanding of the origins of social
network structure remains limited. In this paper, we observe that the literature on individual …

Gender, brokerage, and performance: A construal approach

RA Brands, A Mehra - Academy of Management Journal, 2019 - journals.aom.org
We present a new theory that seeks to explain differences in the performance of men and
women friendship network brokers—individuals who bridge disconnected friends. In contrast …

Brokers in disguise: The joint effect of actual brokerage and socially perceived brokerage on network advantage

A Iorio - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Interpersonal networks can be conceptualized not only as actual social structures
surrounding individuals but also as cognitive social structures stemming from individuals' …

How do brokers broker? Tertius gaudens, tertius iungens, and the temporality of structural holes

E Quintane, G Carnabuci - Organization Science, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
Organizational network research has demonstrated that multiple benefits accrue to people
occupying brokerage positions. However, the extant literature offers scant evidence of the …