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    Network dynamics across the career life-cycle: Micro-mechanisms of network development
    (2017-10-20) ;
    Bensaou, Ben
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    Galunic, Charles
    Looking at networking agency throughout the career life-cycle in a professional service firm (LegalCo) we find distinctive practices of networking agency that come with the tasks and roles of different career stages. Taking a grounded theory approach we identify in our in-depth interviews with lawyers at the junior, mid-career associate and partner level particular activities that differentiate individuals expressing high networking agency compared to other peers that express low networking agency. We then track the patterns of networking agency across the three career stages from junior associate to partner and identify three overreaching mechanisms of networking agency: The seeking out of specific organisational actors, the creation of imprinting ties and the playing on similarities account for distinctively different career experiences for high versus low networking agency professionals. Our study demonstrates that networking agency is an important concept to explain how specific ties become imprinted and thereby provide benefits across several career stages. Networking agency is also a key factor to explain how organisational actors may exploit (or not) homophily in their work context.
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    Agency and imprinting in network dynamics: A look across the career life-cycle
    Looking at the evolution of networking behaviours throughout the career life-cycle in a professional service firm (LegalCo) we find distinctive networking foci and activities that come with the tasks and roles of different career stages. Taking a closer look at networking behaviours within each career stage we identify and describe how the networking of high agency (HA) vs. low agency (LA) service professionals differs. We track the differentiation between HA and LA networkers across the career life-cycle from junior associate to partner and identify three overreaching mechanisms of networking agency – seeking out (specific organisational actors), creating imprinting ties and playing on similarities – that account for distinctively different networking paths throughout the career life -cycle. We discuss the career implications and the role of homophily as an underlying groundwork that acts as an enabler or a hurdle to the activation of the identified mechanisms of agency.
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    Networking throughout the career cycle: The role of agency and imprinting
    (2014) ;
    Bensaou, Ben
    ;
    Galunic, Charles
    Looking at the evolution of networking behaviours throughout the career life-cycle in a professional service firm (LegalCo) we find distinctive networking foci and activities that come with the tasks and roles of different career stages. Taking a closer look at networking behaviour within each career stage we identify and describe how the networking of high agency (HA) vs. low agency (LA) service professionals differs. We track the differentiation betwwn HA and LA networkers across the career life-cycle from junior associate to partner and identify three overreaching mechanisms of networking agency - seeking out (specific organisational actors), creating imprinting ties and playing on similarities - that account for distinctively different networking parths throughtout the carrer life - cycle. We discuss the career implications and the role of homophily as an underlying groundwork that acts as an enabler or a hurdle to the activation of the identified mechanisms of agency.