Advancing Theory and Research on Network Agency.

The agency issue is at the conceptual core of organizational social network research and theory because it concerns the relations between individual choices and the system of interdependencies that the interplay between people and structure involves. This tension concerning agency has surfaced in social network theory since its beginnings and gained popularity in the last decade, influencing leading theoretical approaches to organizational social networks. In this panel symposium, in which we invited leading scholars in the field, we aim to build consensus on the relevance of network agency for current research in management and adjacent disciplines, address its critical issues and controversies, and envisage future research implications and directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]