Status: Insights from organizational sociology

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 267-283

  Sauder, Michael ^a   Lynn, Freda ^a   Podolny, Joel M ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizations; Signaling; Social networks; Status hierarchies; Third parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864187143     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145503     Document Type: Review

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