How do brokers broker? Exploring brokering through a process perspective

This PhD thesis explores the way in which brokers broker and aims to increase the understanding of how and why individuals perform brokering and thus facilitate interactions among other actors towards the achievement of innovative outcomes. It contains a collection of three papers, two empirical and one theoretical, taking a process perspective to address this issue and considering brokering as a behavioral process. Focusing on how brokering unfolds and on its underlying dynamics it provides empirical and theoretical contribution to the literature on networks, brokers, creativity and innovation.