The categorical imperative: Securities analysts and the illegitimacy discount

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1398-1438

  Zuckerman, Ezra W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/210178     Document Type: Article

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