Sieves and lenses : essays on the role of categories in social valuation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Systems of classification are pervasive and consequential in economic life, as they are in the social world more generally. Membership in socially defined categories, such as industries or genres, constitutes a core part of an organization's identity, and, as such, profoundly impacts how the organization, its products and actions are evaluated. This dissertation includes three essays that analyze the ways in which similar actions in market settings are interpreted and assessed quite differently depending on the categorical identity of the performer. The first essay introduces the idea that categories of organizations (e.g., industries) differ in status and that status differences at the category level influence the social standing of individual members of the category. The second essay tests and finds support for the idea that category status impacts the way in which an organization's actions are perceived and evaluated. In particular, I find that earnings restatements from members of high-status categories are viewed less negatively than those from lower-status categories. Finally, the third essay, co-authored with Ming Leung, provides evidence of an audience-driven penalty for multiple-category membership in markets.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Copyright date | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2010, c2011; 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Sharkey, Amanda Jean | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. | |
| Primary advisor | Hannan, Michael | |
| Primary advisor | Sorensen, Jesper B, 1967- | |
| Thesis advisor | Hannan, Michael | |
| Thesis advisor | Sorensen, Jesper B, 1967- | |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce | |
| Advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Amanda Jean Sharkey. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Amanda Jean Sharkey
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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