BUS 374 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article: Grafting, Qwerty, Blackberry Z10

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 374
• Professor: Marina Puricelli

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Conformity high in middle, low at top & bottom. High status: confident in their social positions so they can deviate & differentiate. Low status: free to deviate b/c they"re already at the bottom. Middle status: fears disenfranchisement, so they conform: introduction. In the article published in 2001, middle-status conformity: theoretical restatement and. J. phillips and ezra w. zuckerman stated that conformity is high in the middle yet low at the top and bottom of a status hierarchy , forming an inverted u-shaped curve (phillips and zuckerman, 2001, p. 379). In order to validate this ius relationship between status and conformity, phillips and zuckerman developed a theoretical framework to indicate the existence of three possible statuses: high, middle, and low. Moreover, they argue that ius conjecture only holds under the following scope conditions: social-psychological, structural, and action. By applying this framework, we propose to answer the following question, do organizations always act similarly? by identifying phillips and.