A bargaining model for social status in informal groups and formal organizations

The author says of his paper: “It seems to me that among all noneconomic motivational variables social status may be the most important one. But social status itself is too complex a social phenomenon to be used as a further‐not‐analyzed primitive concept of our theory. This paper is an attempt to analyze it in terms of some more basic human motivations, by asking the questions why people seek high social status and why some people are granted high social status by others. I am trying to answer these questions in terms of a game‐theoretical bargaining model for social status”.