The cost of status enhancement: Performance effects of individuals' status mobility in task groups

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 308-322

  Bendersky, Corinne ^a   Shah, Neha Parikh ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance; Resource trade offs; Status mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862121597     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0543     Document Type: Article

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