What's in a (Missing) Name? Status and Signaling in Open Standards Development

How much are we influenced by an author's identity? If identity matters, is it because we have a "taste for status" or because it offers a useful shortcut - a signal that is correlated with the likely importance of their ideas? This paper presents evidence from a natural experiment that took place at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - a community of engineers and computer scientists who develop the protocols used to run the Internet. The results suggest that IETF participants use authors' identity as a signal or filter, paying more attention to proposals from high-status authors, and this has a surprisingly large impact on publication outcomes. There is little evidence of a "taste" for status

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Simcoe, Timothy ; Waguespack, David ; Fleming, Lee
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Signalling \| Sozialer Status \| Social status \| Standardisierung \| Standardization

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