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| Title: | What's in a (Missing) Name? Status and Signaling in Open Standards Development |
| Authors: | Waguespack, Dave - University of Maryland
Simcoe, Tim - University of Toronto
Fleming, Lee - Harvard Business School |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | Net Institute Working Paper;08-31 |
| Abstract: | How much are we influenced by an author's identity? If identity matters,
is it because we have a 'taste for status' or because it offers a useful
shortcut — a signal that is correlated with the likely importance
of their ideas? This paper presents evidence from a natural experiment
that took place at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) — a
community of engineers and computer scientists who develop the protocols
used to run the Internet. The results suggest that IETF participants use
authors' identity as a signal or filter, paying more attention to
proposals from highstatus authors, and this has a surprisingly large
impact on publication outcomes. There is little evidence of a 'taste'
for status. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/29463 |
| Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series
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