Network-Related Personality and the Agency Question: Multirole Evidence from a Virtual World1

By Ronald S. Burt. American Journal of Sociology, 2012

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Personality and social networks in organizations: A review and future directions (2016, background): “One caveat is that Burt (2012) measured only the consistency with which the same person built similar social networks across the characters he or she played.”
Integrating Personality and Social Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Personality, Network Position, and Work Outcomes in Organizations (2015, methodology): “Finally, our research addresses a new challenge to the integration of personality psychology and social networks in examining the recent claim (Burt 2012) that, irrespective of the degree to which personality characteristics influence the attainment of advantageous network positions, the position a ”
Brokerage Professions and Implementing Reform in an Age of Experts (2014, background): “While this literature shows that brokers in the same structural position can act differently (Burt 2012; Fernandez-Mateo 2007; Long Lingo and O’Mahony 2010; Powell, Packalen, and Whittington 2012), I demonstrate the conditions under which we can expect brokers to successfully use connecting…”
Personality Change: Implications for Organizational Behavior (2018, background): “…research in this domain claims that the position occupied in organizational networks (e.g., a brokerage position spanning across gaps in social structure) is an indicator itself of social personality to the extent that actors display consistency in the network positions they occupy (Burt, 2012).”