The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-33

  Kovács, Balázs ^a   Sharkey, Amanda J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

awards; Goodreads.com; popularity; publicity; quality; status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893871013     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839214523602     Document Type: Review

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