Status, quality, and attention: What's in a (Missing) name?

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 274-290

  Simcoe, Timothy S ^a   Waguespack, Dave M ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Sociology of science; Status; Technology

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION BOARD; INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCES; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; OPEN STANDARDS; PUBLICATION RATES; SEARCH COSTS; SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE; STATUS; STATUS SIGNAL;

SOCIAL SCIENCES; STANDARDIZATION;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 79951938585     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1270     Document Type: Article

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