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Finding A Good Job: Academic Network Centrality And Early Occupational Outcomes In Management Academia, Michael Hadani, Susan Coombes, Diya Das, David Jalajas

Faculty of Management Publications

The impact of universalistic versus particularistic criteria on academic hiring has been receiving growing attention in recent years. Yet, most studies conducted on hiring norms in academy and management academy have ignored the impact of social capital, particularly structural social capital, a particularistic attribute, on occupational outcomes. This could lead to a partial if not misleading view of the sociology of hiring in management academy. We utilize a novel approach, focusing on academic departments’ structural social capital in the form of network centrality (based on cumulative PhD exchange networks), and explore how this type of centrality impacts job seekers’ occupational …