Brokers Behaving Badly

Broker behavior is a consequential, largely-uncharted topic; an exciting arena for future research. We know network brokerage is associated with success, but we worry about collateral damage to exploited colleagues. Given the intellectual context sketched below, we believe that the 2019 Academy meetings are a propitious occasion to address several questions for future research, informed by contemporary empirical research: (1) Are network brokers any more likely to behave badly than people in closed networks? (2) Do different types of brokerage lead to differences in the extent of bad behavior? (3) Is broker bad behavior governed by the surrounding social system any differently from the way governance is exercised over the bad behavior of people in closed networks? Hidden Costs of Brokerage: Brokerage Behavior and Broker Exhaustion Presenter: Jung Won Lee; UCL School of Management Presenter: Maria Fernanda Ruiz; - Presenter: Eric Quintane; U. de los Andes, Colombia Presenter: Martin J. Kilduff; UCL School of Management The Mind of the Network Broker Presenter: Yonghoon Lee; Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology Presenter: Heejung Jung; Imperial College London Presenter: Tiziana Casciaro; U. of Toronto Network Brokers and Bad Behavior Presenter: Ronald S. Burt; U. Of Chicago Brokers Who Burn Out: How Divide Between Brokerage Leads to Abusive Behavior Presenter: Jung Won Lee; UCL School of Management Presenter: Sunyoung Lee; UCL School of Management Presenter: Martin J. Kilduff; UCL School of Management