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Kehoe, Rebecca R. & Lepak, David P. & Bentley, F. Scott (2018). Let's Call a Star a Star: Task Performance, External Status, and Exceptional Contributors in Organizations. Journal of Management, 44(5), 1848-1872. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30R9RJC

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Let's Call a Star a Star: Task Performance, External Status, and Exceptional Contributors in Organizations (2018)
Rebecca R. Kehoe, David P. Lepak, F. Scott Bentley
Journal of Management 44(5): 1848-1872.
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AbstractWe develop a new typology of star employees, wherein we identify three types of stars – universal stars, performance stars, and status stars – on the basis of stars’ unique combinations of task performance and external status. By classifying stars in this way and disentangling task performance and external status as unique and simultaneously important qualities underlying the distinct contributions of different types of stars, we provide a basis for more accurately identifying the full range of individuals who create exceptional value, and offer novel insights into stars’ various influences in organizations. With this foundation, we explore how different types of stars’ distinct qualities and bases of value creation affect both the security of their star standing and their relative abilities to appropriate value. We then expand our focus to consider stars in the broader organizational contexts in which they exist, discussing the implications of stars’ distinct attributes for patterns of value creation, value capture, and value preservation associated with stars’ complementarities and redundancies with other organizational resources. Finally, we propose several lines of inquiry through which future research may leverage the proposed typology to address issues related to the management of different types of stars in the broader organizational contexts in which they are embedded.
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30R9RJC
SubjectsStar employee, Human capital, Status, Task performance, Performance
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