ICOS Presents:

"A Sociological (De)construction of the Relationship Between Status and Quality"

Professor Joel Podolny

Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School

March 18, 2005

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Introduction

Title Slide

Motivations

Social Construction

Basic parameters of model

What is relationship

What is relationship (2)

Mechanism in Gould's SH Model

Model box graph

Model box graph (2)

Comparing Quality and Status

Questions addresses in SH paper

How symmetry affects the status

Our Focus

How symmetry affects the status

Our Focus

Uncertainty

Uncertainty box chart

Dyadic Uncertainty About Quality

Collective vs. Dyadic Uncertainty

Conclusion 1

Diffuse Status Characteristics

Introducing Randomiaztion of Initial Pattern

Conclusion 2

Introducing Randomiaztion of Initial Pattern

Conclusion 3

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Introducing "feedback effect"

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Empirical implications

Other implications

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