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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 36, No. 4
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Middle-status conformity revisited: The interplay between achieved and ascribed status
Decisions about conforming to or deviating from conventional practices in a
field is an important concern of organization and management theory. The
position that actors occupy in the status hierarchy has been shown to be an
important determinant of these decisions. The dominant hypothesis, known
as middle-status-conformity, posits that middle-status actors are more likely
to conform to conventional practices than high- and low-status actors do. We
challenge this hypothesis by revisiting its fundamental assumptions and
developing a theory where actorsâ propensity to conform based on their
achieved status further depends on their ascribed status that actors inherit
from their social group. Specifically, we propose that middle-status
conformity applies only to actors who have a sense of security, based on their
high ascribed status. For actors with low ascribed status, we propose that
high-and low-status actors show greater conformity than middle-status actors.
We test our hypotheses using data from the U.S. symphony orchestras from
1918 to 1969
Suburban Differentiation: On the Contemporary Utility of the Employment-Residence Typology
On the âUrbannessâ of Metropolitan Areas: Testing the Homogeneity Assumption, 1970â2000
Metropolitan classification, Urban, GIS, LULC, Remote sensing, Population trends 1970â2000,
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