1612: Understanding Dual-Dynamic Processes: The Coevolution of Networks and Individual Attributes (17512)

Organizer(s)

• SL

  Shihan Li

  Heinz College - Carnegie Mellon U., United States

Panelist(s)

• NN

  Nynke Niezink

  Carnegie Mellon U. - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Presenter(s)

• SL

  Shihan Li

  Heinz College - Carnegie Mellon U., United States
• TG

  Travis Grosser

  U. of Connecticut, United States

Organizer(s)

• TG

  Travis Grosser

  U. of Connecticut, United States

Discussant(s)

• NC

  Noshir Contractor

  Northwestern U., United States

Presenter(s)

• AP

  Andrew Parker

  Durham U. Business School, United Kingdom

Panelist(s)

• ST

  Steffen Triebel

  U. of Exeter Business School, Germany
• CW

  Christian Waldstrom

  Aarhus U., Denmark

Presenter(s)

• ST

  Stefano Tasselli

  U. of Exeter Business School, United Kingdom

Panelist(s)

• ZC

  Ziyue Cui

  The U. of Connecticut
• RK

  Robert Krause

  Gatton College of Business and Economics, U. of Kentucky, United States

The past decades have witnessed an increasing appeal for considering the critical roles individuals play in facilitating the building and leveraging patterns of social relations in organizations for their benefits at work in response to the extreme structural perspective, which regards individual behaviors, affect, cognitions, and other outcomes as the result of social structure in which individuals are embedded. Recent methodological advances and theoretical frameworks have opened the door for researchers to examine the interplay of individual attributes and social networks with greater fidelity. The papers in this symposium build on these recent developments. The result is a set of papers that explore the dynamic relationship between various individual attributes and intraorganizational networks and, in doing so, give a more accurate account of the reciprocal relationship between individual agency and social structure. Specifically, the first two papers explore the processes through which network brokerage and individual predispositions (i.e., personality traits and different types of brokerage orientations) mutually influence each other over time. The third paper investigates the dynamic relationship between work self-efficacy and help-seeking network ties and how the strength of this relationship is dependent upon a focal employee’s predisposition for self-monitoring. The last paper examines the effect of friends’ turnover on employees’ organizational commitment and how its direction and magnitude vary as a function of leavers’ organizational commitment and the stayers’ gender. These cutting-edge research projects aim to spur discussions on the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of the dynamic interplay between individual attributes and social networks.

Presentations:

• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1612: The Effect of Brokerage Orientation and Structural Brokerage on Network and Performance Dynamics (17512)
  

  Author: Andrew Parker – Durham U. Business School

  Author: Steffen Triebel – U. of Exeter Business School

  Author: Christian Waldstrom – Aarhus U.
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1612: Brokerage, Personality Change, and Performance (17512)
  

  Author: Stefano Tasselli – U. of Exeter Business School
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1612: The Coevolution of Work Self-Efficacy and Help-Seeking Ties (17512)
  

  Author: Travis Grosser – U. of Connecticut

  Author: Ziyue Cui – The U. of Connecticut

  Author: Robert Wilhelm Krause – Gatton College of Business and Economics, U. of Kentucky
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1612: Changing Commitment After Friends’ Turnover? The Roles of Leavers’ Commitment and Stayers' Gender (17512)
  

  Author: Shihan Li – Heinz College - Carnegie Mellon U.

  Author: Nynke Niezink – Carnegie Mellon U. - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences