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Status, quality, and attention / Timothy S. Simcoe in Management science, Vol. 57 N° 2 (Février 2011) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 2 (Février 2011) . - pp. 274-290 Titre : Status, quality, and attention : What's in a (Missing) name? Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Timothy S. Simcoe, Auteur ; Dave M. Waguespack, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp. 274-290 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Status  Technology  Sociology  of  science Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : How much are we influenced by an author's identity when evaluating his or her work? This paper exploits a natural experiment to measure the impact of status signals in the context of open standards development. For a period of time, e-mails announcing new submissions to the Internet Engineering Task Force would replace individual author names with "et al." if submission volumes were unusually high. We measure the impact of status signals by comparing the effect of obscuring high- versus low-status author names. Our results show that name-based signals can explain up to three-quarters of the difference in publication rates between high- and low-status authors. The signaling effect disappears for a set of prescreened proposals that receive more scrutiny than a typical submission, suggesting that status signals are more important when attention is scarce (or search costs high). We also show that submissions from high-status authors receive more attention on electronic discussion boards, which may help high-status authors to develop their ideas and bring them forward to publication. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/2/274 [article] Status, quality, and attention : What's in a (Missing) name? [texte imprimé] / Timothy S. Simcoe, Auteur ; Dave M. Waguespack, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 274-290. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 2 (Février 2011) . - pp. 274-290 Mots-clés : Status  Technology  Sociology  of  science Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : How much are we influenced by an author's identity when evaluating his or her work? This paper exploits a natural experiment to measure the impact of status signals in the context of open standards development. For a period of time, e-mails announcing new submissions to the Internet Engineering Task Force would replace individual author names with "et al." if submission volumes were unusually high. We measure the impact of status signals by comparing the effect of obscuring high- versus low-status author names. Our results show that name-based signals can explain up to three-quarters of the difference in publication rates between high- and low-status authors. The signaling effect disappears for a set of prescreened proposals that receive more scrutiny than a typical submission, suggesting that status signals are more important when attention is scarce (or search costs high). We also show that submissions from high-status authors receive more attention on electronic discussion boards, which may help high-status authors to develop their ideas and bring them forward to publication. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/2/274