Chapter 1: Status as concept and social fact -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Chapter 2: The manipulation of status: Causes and effects -- Chapter 3: Status and cognition: Decision making, policy implementation, and fallacies and biases in status ordered fields -- Part II: Empirical cases...

Introduction: from the lexical to the visual -- The visual turn in social science and organization theory -- Vision and visualization in science-based innovation work -- Vision and visualization in architecture work -- The primacy of vision and its implication for organization theory.