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Status in management and organizations

"People go to extraordinary lengths to gain and defend their status. Those with higher status are listened to more, receive more deference from others, and are perceived as having more power. People with higher status also tend to have better health and longevity. In short, status matters. Despite the importance of status, particularly in the workplace, it has received comparatively little attention from management scholars. It is only relatively recently that they have turned their attention to the powerful role that social status plays in organizations. This book brings together this important work, showing why we should distinguish status from power, hierarchy and work quality. It also shows how a better understanding of status can be used to address problems in a number of different areas, including strategic acquisitions, the development of innovations, new venture funding, executive compensation, discrimination, and team diversity effects"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2011
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011
xx, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780521115452, 9780521132961, 0521115450, 0521132967
656850568
List of figures
ix
List of tables
x
List of contributors
xi
Forewordxvii
Prefacexix
1 Introduction: The power of status
1(22)
Jone L. Pearce
Part I How status differences are legitimated
23(62)
2 Divergence in status evaluation: Theoretical implications for a social construction view of status building
25(30)
Bilian Ni Sullivan
Daniel Stewart
3 Maintaining but also changing hierarchies: What Social Dominance Theory has to say
55(30)
James O'Brien
Joerg Dietz
Part II The influence of status on markets
85(68)
4 The importance of status in markets: A market identity perspective
87(31)
Michael Jensen
Bo Kyung Kim
Heeyon Kim
5 On the need to extend tournament theory through insights from status research
118(35)
Michael Nippa
Part III The role of status in new industries and ventures
153(60)
6 The cultural context of status: Generating important knowledge in nanotechnology
155(36)
Tyler Wry
Michael Lounsbury
Royston Greenwood
7 Venture launch and growth as a status-building process
191(22)
M. Kim Saxton
Todd Saxton
Part IV When ascriptive status trumps achieved status in teams
213(54)
8 Status cues and expertise assessment in groups: How group members size one another up ... and why it matters
215(23)
J. Stuart Bunderson
Michelle A. Barton
9 The malleability of race in organizational teams: A theory of racial status activation
238(29)
Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt
Katherine W. Phillips
Part V Status in the workplace
267(64)
10 Organizational justice and status: Theoretical perspectives and promising directions
269(35)
Jerald Greenberg
Deshani B. Ganegoda
11 Resolving conflicts between status and distinctiveness in individual identity: A framework of multiple identity displays
304(27)
Kimberly D. Elsbach
Part VI Developing status and management knowledge
331(14)
12 The value of status in management and organization research: A theoretical integration
333(12)
Jone L. Pearce
Index345