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Status Inconsistency, Status Aspiration, Task Mobility, and Preferences for Specialization and Despecialization of Group Task Structure
(2015-07-28)
This technical report is a further elaboration of the exchange-based theory of status consistency and individuals’ reactions to various patterns that was presented in technical report 21. The extended theory predicts ...
Interdisciplinary Research Teams as Status Systems
(2015-08-15)
Research teams may be studied as social systems organized along dimensions of status, such as rights to evaluate others and to allocate rewards. “Status consistency” is the degree to which salient statuses an individual ...
On the Balance of a Set of Ranks
(2015-07-13)
This theoretical paper addresses what was then called “status consistency” or “status crystallization.” Discrepant ranks on different characteristics such as income, occupational prestige, education, race, and religion ...
Stability of Organizational Status Structures
(2015-07-14)
The authors develop theoretical foundation for ideas in earlier technical reports and elsewhere on status consistency, focusing on effects for organizations. When inconsistent ranks of individuals and jobs become salient, ...