Secondhand Brokerage: Evidence On The Importance Of Local Structure For Managers, Bankers, And Analysts

By Ronald S. Burt. 2007

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Exploring the Locus of Invention: The Dynamics of Network Communities and Firms' Invention Productivity (2014, background): “This finding, therefore, casts doubt on the uniformity of the recent conclusion that only ego networks matter for actor outcomes (Burt, 2007).”
Integrating Personality and Social Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Personality, Network Position, and Work Outcomes in Organizations (2015, methodology): “This model has been suggested by several authors (e.g., Burt 2007, Kilduff and Brass 2010, Mehra et al. 2001) and has been examined in empirical work (e.g., Anderson 2008, Fang and Shaw 2009, Fang et al. 2015).”
Do Overwhelmed Expatriates Intend to Leave? The Effects of Sensory Processing Sensitivity, Stress, and Social Capital on Expatriates' Turnover Intention (2018, background): “Social capital comprises a resource dimension itself (Lin, 2001) as transferring information or knowledge within one’s network is considered useful for attaining one’s goals (Burt, 2007).”
Home-Country Networks and Foreign Expansion (2016, neutral): “Recent empirical evidence suggests that brokerage advantage is concentrated within an actor’s immediate network, with brokerage between indirect ties being of little value (Burt, 2007).”
When Firms are Desperate to Grow via Acquisition: The Effect of Growth Patterns and Acquisition Experience on Acquisition Premiums (2011, methodology): “The log-transformation has been frequently used in the management literature to model a non-linear relationship (e.g., Burt, 2004, 2007).”
The Impact of Human, Social and Financial Capital on the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa (2011, background): “Wu (2008) notes that the relationship between social capital and firm performance has attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years such as Arregle et al. (2007) and Burt (2007).”
5 Turnover and Retention Research: A Glance at the Past, a Closer Review of the Present, and a Venture into the Future (2008, background): “Another potentially valuable research direction may be to consider inferences from social networks theory (c.f., Burt, 2004; Burt, 2007) and job embeddedness on voluntary turnover.”
Sub‐National Institutional Contingencies, Network Positions, and IJV Partner Selection (2012, neutral): “UCINET has been used extensively in network research across different management domains, including organization theory (Burt, 2007) and strategy (Zaheer and Bell, 2005), to mention a few.”
Gone but Not Lost: The Different Performance Impacts of Employee Mobility Between Cooperators Versus Competitors (2008, background): “…allow the hiring service provider to anticipate the concerns and effectively mobilize its resources to meet the needs of the potential client, thus giving the hiring service provider a competitive advantage over other service providers that do not have access to this tacit knowledge (Burt, 2007).”
Proactive personality, social capital, helping, and turnover intentions (2011, background): “Exchange of information and knowledge in particular is considered useful social resource for attaining work goals (Burt, 2007; Seibert and Liden, 2001).”
Who's with Me? False Consensus, Brokerage, and Ethical Decision Making in Organizations (2010, background): “Brokers often have to negotiate across boundaries and manage people with diverse interests (Burt, 2007).”
Innovation in a global consulting firm: when the problem is too much diversity (2010, methodology): “This is a common way to measure density used in network theory (Wasserman and Faust, 1994; Burt, 2006).”