2251: Frontiers of Hierarchy Research: Status, Power, and Inequality (17521)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Hyatt: McCormick

Session Number: 2251
Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Theme,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/8YvBav

Organizer(s)

ZL

ZEREN LI

U. of Washington, United States

Participant(s)

XC

Xiao-Ping Chen

U. of Washington, United States
YZ

Yufei Zhong

U. of Arizona, United States
SD

Sarah Doyle

U. of Arizona, United States
TK

Tamar Kugler

U. of Arizona, United States
PA

Poonam Arora

Quinnipiac U. School of Business, United States
AT

Aurora Turek

Harvard Business School, United States
AG

Adam Galinsky

Columbia U.
GA

Grusha Agarwal

U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Canada
EA

Eric Anicich

U. of Southern California, United States
DR

Derek Rucker

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management

Organizer(s)

HL

Huisi Jessica Li

U. of Washington, United States

Participant(s)

NL

Nira Liberman

Tel Aviv U.
CL

Chloe Levin

Columbia U.
HR

Hannah Riley Bowles

Harvard U., United States

Speaker(s)

JM

Joseph Magee

New York U., United States
ZZ

Zixu Zhang

U. of Arizona, United States
SY

Siyu Yu

U. of Michigan, United States
NS

Niro Sivanathan

London Business School, United Kingdom

Participant(s)

GB

Garrett L. Brady

Bocconi U., Italy
HK

Hemant Kakkar

Indian School of Business, India
SZ

Shibo Zhou

Copenhagen Business School, United States

Hierarchy is an essential component of social life, which emerges spontaneously and organize the social dynamics (Durkheim, 1960; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). Two of the most widely studied and fundamental hierarchical dimensions are status and power (Blader & Chen, 2012; Fiske, 2010; Kemper, 2006; Weber, 1964). Status is defined as the prestige, respect, and esteem that an individual or a group has in the eyes of others (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009; Magee & Galinsky, 2008) and power is defined as individuals’ asymmetric control over valuable resources (Blau, 1964; Greer et al., 2017; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). Previous studies on status and power have shown their impacts on a variety of important outcomes, such as social resources (Lin, 1999), emotions (Kemper, 2006), learning (Bunderson & Reagans, 2011), and goal seeking (Guinote, 2017). This symposium aims to contribute to continuing the discussion of social hierarchy in impacting social life with novel perspectives on both traditional concepts such as gender differences and competition/cooperation, and understudied yet important phenomena such as individual exploration and discrimination recognition. We believe that our symposium will help generate new perspectives and important questions regarding social hierarchy and its relationships with various constructs. We hope that it will facilitate sophisticated theorizing and rigorous empirical research in this line of research.