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“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs

Sandra Portocarrero, James T. Carter
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2022, 8 (7) 172-191; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.09
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aPostdoctoral scholar at Columbia Business School, United States
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vol. 8 no. 7 172-191
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.09

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2377-8253
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  • Published online November 29, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Portocarrero, Sandra, and James T. Carter. 2022. “‘But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!’ How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(7): 172–91. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.09. The authors thank Tania Jenkins, Gerardo Okhuysen, Vincent Roscigno, and Mark Warschauer for their helpful feedback on previous versions of this manuscript. We are grateful to our anonymous reviewers. Direct correspondence to: Sandra Portocarrero, at p.sandra@columbia.edu, Columbia University, 606 W. 122nd St., Room 506, New York, NY 10027, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Sandra Portocarreroa and
  2. James T. Carterb
  1. aPostdoctoral scholar at Columbia Business School, United States
  2. bPh.D. candidate in Management at Columbia Business School, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Sandra Portocarrero, (p.sandra{at}columbia.edu)
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