How does status affect performance and learning from failure? Evidence from online communities

• Main Author: ZOU, Tengjian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Status; hierarchy; team; learning; failure; online community; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/262; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1262&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This dissertation is composed of two essays. In the first essay, I investigate the factors that can alleviate the detrimental effect of hierarchy on team performance. I first show that hierarchy negatively impacts team performance, which is consistent with recent meta-analytic evidence. One mechanis...