“…For example, organizational integration (Sparrowe & Liden, 1997), advancement, progress, development or promotion (Burt, 1992), authority, power, control (Brass, 1984), creativity (Ibarra, 1993), learning aftermaths (Baldwin, Bedell, & Johnson, 1997), and job successes (Sparrowe, et al, 2001) all depends on actors position in social network. In addition, individuals embedded in advice networks can benefit from the ties by gaining structurally beneficial positions in the advice network to derive positive outcomes for example enhanced research performance (Badar, Hite, & Ashraf, 2015).…”