The organizational selection of status characteristics: Status evaluations in an open source community

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 341-354

  Bianchi, Alison J ^a   Kang, Soong Moon ^b   Stewart, Daniel ^c  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group structure; Organizational behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863097283     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0580     Document Type: Article

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