BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260608T222139EDT-5484nD1Can@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260609T022139Z DESCRIPTION:\n\nMs. Julie Nguyen\, a doctoral student at 91şÚÁĎÍř in the Organizational Behaviour area will be presenting her thesis defense entitled:\n\nSecondhand Social Capital and the Quest for Workplace Gender Equality\n\n \nThursday\, November 21\, 2024\, at 10:00 a.m.\n (The defens e will be conducted in Hybrid mode)\n\nStudent Committee Chair: Professor Lisa Cohen\n\nPlease note that the presentation will be conducted in Hybri d mode.\n\n\nABSTRACT\n\nOur current understanding of how brokerage provid es social capital is incomplete. While the processes through which network brokers reap rewards are well established\, we know little about the outc omes of those connected to brokers\, i.e.\, secondhand brokerage. This dis sertation aims to explore how connections to network brokers impact indivi duals’ career sustainability\, with a particular focus on whether this eff ect differs for women and men. Using large-scale digital trace data\, I tr ack the longitudinal collaboration networks of 571\,851 filmmakers between 2000 and 2022 to investigate whether network contacts’ brokerage affects movie directors’ likelihood of continuing a directing career after their d ebut.\n\nThis dissertation unfolds in four chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the research questions\, methodology\, key findings\, and implications for theory and practice\, setting the stage for two subsequent empirical chap ters.\n\nChapter 2 provides a review of the emerging work on secondhand br okerage\, integrating various and sometimes conflicting theoretical views and empirical findings in this literature. This is followed by an empirica l test examining whether the brokerage of filmmakers with whom directors c ollaborated influences their chances of sustaining a directing career over a decade. The results indicate that contacts’ brokerage\, both at debut a nd throughout careers\, strongly predicts directors’ career sustainability .\n\nChapter 3 examines connections to brokers as a potential factor in pr omoting women leaders’ career sustainability and narrowing the gender gap in leader dropout rates. Specifically\, it explores whether the effect of contacts’ brokerage on directors’ career sustainability differs for men an d women. The results reveal that both women and men benefit from connectio ns with brokers. However\, women directors benefit more from collaborating with brokers early in their careers\, while men directors gain more from ongoing collaborations with brokers throughout their careers.\n\nChapter 4 \, the conclusion chapter\, synthesizes the findings across both empirical papers\, discusses their methodological limitations\, and suggests future research directions.\n\nOverall\, this dissertation advances understandin g of the broader implications of brokerage\, not just on the few brokers b ut on the many individuals connected to them. Additionally\, it underscore s the implications of secondhand brokerage for workplace gender inequality .\n DTSTART:20241121T150000Z DTEND:20241121T170000Z SUMMARY:PhD Thesis Defense Presentation: Julie Nguyen URL:/desautels/channels/event/phd-thesis-defense-prese ntation-julie-nguyen-361150 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR