Extant research in organizational networks has provided critical insights into understanding the benefits of occupying a brokerage position. More recently, researchers have moved beyond the brokerage position to consider the brokering processes (arbitration and collaboration) brokers engage in and their implications for performance. However, brokering processes are typically measured using scales that reflect individuals’ orientation toward engaging in a behavior, rather than the behavior itself. In this article, we propose a measure that captures the behavioral process of brokering. The measure indicates the extent to which actors engage in arbitration versus collaboration based on sequences of time stamped relational events, such as emails, message boards, and recordings of meetings. We demonstrate the validity of our measure as well as its predictive ability. By leveraging the temporal information inherent in sequences of relational events, our behavioral measure of brokering creates opportunities for researchers to explore the dynamics of brokerage and their impact on individuals, and also paves the way for a systematic examination of the temporal dynamics of networks.

组织网络中的现有研究提供了重要的见解，可帮助您理解担任经纪职位的好处。最近，研究人员已经超越了经纪人的职位，开始考虑经纪流程。（仲裁和协作）经纪人的参与及其对绩效的影响。但是，中介过程通常使用反映个人倾向于从事某种行为的方向而不是行为本身的量表来衡量。在本文中，我们提出了一种捕获代理行为过程的措施。该度量根据时间戳关系事件的序列（例如电子邮件，留言板和会议记录）指示参与者进行仲裁与协作的程度。我们证明了我们的措施的有效性及其预测能力。通过利用关系事件序列中固有的时间信息，我们对经纪人的行为方式为研究人员提供了探索经纪人动态及其对个人影响的机会，