How does status affect performance? Status as an asset vs. status as a liability in the PGA and NASCAR

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 416-433

  Bothner, Matthew S ^a   Kim, Young Kyu ^b   Smith, Edward Bishop ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resources; Network analysis; Performance; Status; Tournaments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863105531     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0679     Document Type: Article

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