How Outstanding am I? A Measure for Social Comparison within Organizations

Abstract

In the 1950s and 1960s, economists, sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers described the phenomenon of craving for status independently of one another and using different terms. They claimed that this motivation might become just as much a passion for human beings in the modern age as the craving for money was for those who lived in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, that period of classical capitalist formation.