The legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks guiding governance decisions are highly politicized and subject to intense debate. This book discusses governance theory in relation to corporations, universities and markets. Confronting the challenges of governing these three core areas, Alexander...

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...