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DESCRIPTION:\n\nMs. Julie Nguyen\, a doctoral student at McGill University 
 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
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SUMMARY:PhD Thesis Defense Presentation: Julie Nguyen
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/channels/event/phd-thesis-defense-prese
 ntation-julie-nguyen-361150
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