Ideological boundaries of status advantages: Legislative effectiveness in the House of Representatives in the United States Congress

• Main Authors: COLLET, Francois, CARNABUCI, Gianluca, ERTUG, Gokhan, ZOU, Tengjian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Status; influence; ideology; social capital; congress; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Influence and Political Communication; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6508; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7507/viewcontent/Status_ideology_Organization_Studies_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Prior research assumes that high-status actors have greater organizational influence than lower-status ones, that is, it is easier for the former to get their ideas and initiatives adopted by the organization than it is for the latter. Drawing from the literature on ideology, we posit that the statu...