Temporal brokering: A measure of brokerage as a behavioral process

E Quintane, M Wood, J Dunn… - Organizational …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
E Quintane, M Wood, J Dunn, L Falzon
Organizational Research Methods, 2022journals.sagepub.com
Extant research in organizational networks has provided critical insights into understanding
the benefits of occupying a brokerage position. More recently, researchers have moved
beyond the brokerage position to consider the brokering processes (arbitration and
collaboration) brokers engage in and their implications for performance. However, brokering
processes are typically measured using scales that reflect individuals' orientation toward
engaging in a behavior, rather than the behavior itself. In this article, we propose a measure …
Extant research in organizational networks has provided critical insights into understanding the benefits of occupying a brokerage position. More recently, researchers have moved beyond the brokerage position to consider the brokering processes (arbitration and collaboration) brokers engage in and their implications for performance. However, brokering processes are typically measured using scales that reflect individuals’ orientation toward engaging in a behavior, rather than the behavior itself. In this article, we propose a measure that captures the behavioral process of brokering. The measure indicates the extent to which actors engage in arbitration versus collaboration based on sequences of time stamped relational events, such as emails, message boards, and recordings of meetings. We demonstrate the validity of our measure as well as its predictive ability. By leveraging the temporal information inherent in sequences of relational events, our behavioral measure of brokering creates opportunities for researchers to explore the dynamics of brokerage and their impact on individuals, and also paves the way for a systematic examination of the temporal dynamics of networks.
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