ISBN:
9780521115452
,
9780521132961
,
9780511927768
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 353 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to management
Parallel Title:
Print version Status in Management and Organizations
DDC:
306.3/6
Keywords:
Industrial sociology
;
Social status
;
Organizational behavior
;
Organizational sociology
;
Prestige
Abstract:
Shows how a better understanding of status can be used to address problems in a number of different organizational settings
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction: The power of status; Competing understandings of status?; High status is advantageous; How status differences arise; The contributions to this volume; References; Part I How status differences are legitimated; 2 Divergence in status evaluation: Theoretical implications for a social construction view of status building; 3 Maintaining but also changing hierarchies: What Social Dominance Theory has to say; Part II The influence of status on markets
Description / Table of Contents:
4 The importance of status in markets: A market identity perspective5 On the need to extend tournament theory through insights from status research; Part III The role of status in new industries and ventures; 6 The cultural context of status: Generating important knowledge in nanotechnology; 7 Venture launch and growth as a status-building process; Part IV When ascriptive status trumps achieved status in teams; 8 Status cues and expertise assessment in groups: How group members size one another up … and why it matters
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The malleability of race in organizational teams: A theory of racial status activationPart V Status in the workplace; 10 Organizational justice and status: Theoretical perspectives and promising directions; 11 Resolving conflicts between status and distinctiveness in individual identity: A framework of multiple identity displays; Part VI Developing status and management knowledge; 12 The value of status in management and organization research: A theoretical integration; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
