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I Used To Work At Goldman Sachs! How Organizational Status Creates Rents In The Market For Human Capital, Matthew Bidwell, Shinjae Won, Roxana Barbulescu, Ethan Mollick
I Used To Work At Goldman Sachs! How Organizational Status Creates Rents In The Market For Human Capital, Matthew Bidwell, Shinjae Won, Roxana Barbulescu, Ethan Mollick
Roxana Barbulescu
We contribute to the literature on how human capital can contribute to competitive advantage by exploring whether having high status in the labor market allows employers to achieve rents in acquiring general human capital. Working for a high status employer provides workers with a valuable signal of ability which helps them to secure better jobs in the future. We argue that higher status employers can appropriate some of those advantages by attracting better workers without having to pay any more. We test these arguments using two unique datasets based on a career survey and internal investment banking personnel data. We …
Do Women Choose Different Jobs From Men? Mechanisms Of Application Segregation In The Market For Managerial Workers, Roxana Barbulescu, Matthew Bidwell
Do Women Choose Different Jobs From Men? Mechanisms Of Application Segregation In The Market For Managerial Workers, Roxana Barbulescu, Matthew Bidwell
Roxana Barbulescu
This paper examines differences in the jobs for which men and women apply in order to better understand gender segregation in managerial jobs. We develop and test an integrative theory of why women might apply to different jobs than men. We note that constraints based on gender role socialization may affect three determinants of job applications: how individuals evaluate the rewards provided by different jobs, whether they identify with those jobs, and whether they believe that their applications will be successful. We then develop hypotheses about the role of each of these decision factors in mediating gender differences in job …
Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, Effectiveness And Consequences Of Narrative Identity Work In Macro Work Role Transitions, Herminia Ibarra, Roxana Barbulescu
Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, Effectiveness And Consequences Of Narrative Identity Work In Macro Work Role Transitions, Herminia Ibarra, Roxana Barbulescu
Roxana Barbulescu
Self-narratives—stories that make a point about the narrator—help people revise and reconstruct identities during work role transitions. We propose a process model in which people draw on narrative repertoires to engage in narrative identity work in role-related interactions. Using feedback from their interactions, they revise both the stories and repertoires. Successful completion of the transition is facilitated by enduring and coherent repertoire changes to express the new role identity.
Why Do Managers Talk About Identity?, Roxana Barbulescu, John Weeks
Why Do Managers Talk About Identity?, Roxana Barbulescu, John Weeks
Roxana Barbulescu
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