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In this symposium, we will examine a wide array of questions and hypotheses that focus on the people who conduct science -- as a complement to more established research traditions that focus on the publications and patents that people produce. Talks will cover topics that relate to a variety of career stages and background characteristics such as: What are the characteristics of scientists who are also inventors? How is Artificial Intelligence being integrated into crowd science projects? How does media coverage about research variably impact the authors of the research? Talks will also feature innovative data resources including one presentation that is able to examine the ways in which External Letters variably influence academic careers with respect to tenure and promotion decisions (particularly in relation to faculty who seek and gain one or more patents).

With permission of the Academy of Management

Despite the popularity of experimental approaches in management and related fields, the adoption of experimental research designs—laboratory, natural, or field experiments—has been slow in organizational network analysis. In recent years, there has been a growing call for more research that pays attention to experimental designs and causal inference in network analysis. This is important not only to ensure knowledge accumulation, but also because of the practical and policy implications of network research. However, relational theories, data, and methods possess peculiarities that need to be accounted for when conducting experiments. In this panel symposium, we bring together a number of leading academic experts, who have contributed to causal network research, to discuss these topics and share their experience on publishing network experiments in leading management outlets.

Although the topic of social networks has received substantial attention from researchers in the field of management, most work on networks at the individual level of analysis has focused on examining specific characteristics of employee networks (e.g., network structure, network centrality, etc.), often from a static perspective. In contrast, relatively little work has directly focused on the behaviors employees engage in to build and manage their social networks. As a result, there is still much to be learned about when and why employees enact networking behavior. The papers in this symposium aim to address this imbalance by directly examining the antecedents and outcomes of professional networking behavior. While the research designs and theoretical lenses of the papers in this symposium vary, the papers are united in their shared focus on various aspects of networking behavior. Two papers focus directly on factors that impact the extent to which employees engage in network building, one takes a temporal approach by examining the factors that influence the speed by which network relationships are formed, and one paper examines how daily fluctuations in networking behavior influence performance outcomes. The end result is a collection of papers that provide a comprehensive look at a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that has begun to attract an increasing amount of research attention among management scholars.