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Partnership Formation: The Role of Social Status

Journal

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 60, Issue 5, Pages 1130-1147

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INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1818

Keywords

partnership; status; laboratory experiment

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  1. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Enhancement Grant - University of Calgary

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We experimentally test for the effect of social status on the likelihood of partnership formation. We consider a two-player game where the opportunity to perform a hidden action by one player may render partnership formation difficult. In this context, we study how the assignment of partners' status to the top, middle, or bottom position of a preexisting status hierarchy affects collaboration. We find that partnership formation is remarkably sensitive to the partners' status affiliations. Collaboration is easiest when both partners share the same social status, and the probability of partnership formation decreases significantly as the status gap between the partners increases, entailing massive inefficiency.

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