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Contributions And Implications Of Within-Organization Brokerage

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3. Methods. Reviewer 3 had several comments and recommendations regarding various aspects of our methodology. We followed most of the recommendations, adding a table of our key constructs, defining them and giving examples. There were more substantive revisions we made based on reviewer 3’s comments • Reviewer 3 asked about the implications of using organizational sector as the grouping variable for brokerage roles, rather than organization. They correctly pointed out that we were not consistent in our use of language through the text, at times using language that implied within-organization brokerage. We responded to this in three ways. First, we directly acknowledge the issue when describing our measure of brokerage (pp 15-16). Second, …show more content…

In Appendix B, we removed obscure technical terms (e.g. GWESP) with more intuitive and descriptive terms (e.g., Triadic Closure). 6. Findings. In response to reviewers 1, we added more details about the nature of the work of the PD provides. Starting on page 25, when we introduce the brokers identified by our test, we select a few to illustrate the range of work these providers engaged in. Reviewer 1 also questioned our choice of the four brokers we selected for the illustrative interaction maps. In the section titled Activating and influencing social capital of our Findings, we added an explicit acknowledgement of our selection of the four brokers. We chose them to make the presentation of our results clearer and easier to follow, and because their interaction maps were clear and reflective of the broader patterns in the data. Other brokers had too many or too few ties to make clear, readable maps that illustrate our findings. Reviewer 1 also requested additional qualitative quotes, which we added on pages 30 and 33. • Reviewer 3 suggested that we include a non-technical description of the model’s fit to the data and the parameter estimates. We included the former, but after careful consideration, we decided against include including the latter. We made this decision for two reasons. First, we felt that introducing and describing the model coefficients would be distracting from the main results of the

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