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dc.contributor.author | Waguespack, Dave - University of Maryland | - |
dc.contributor.author | Simcoe, Tim - University of Toronto | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fleming, Lee - Harvard Business School | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-29T23:24:48Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-12-29T23:24:48Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/29463 | - |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Net Institute Working Paper;08-31 | - |
dc.title | What's in a (Missing) Name? Status and Signaling in Open Standards Development | en |
Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series |
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