Accounting for Negative Attention: Status and Costs in the Market for Audit Services

The authors are grateful to Patrick Bergemann, Jon Bundy, Ron Burt, Chad Carlos, Aharon Cohen-Mohliver, Laura Doering, Phil Lamoreaux, Don Lange, Alina Lerman, Ben Lewis, Mike Minnis, Brian Reschke, Lauren Rivera, and Olav Sorenson, as well as seminar participants at Bocconi University, London Business School, University of Lugano, Columbia University, Brigham Young University, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, EM Lyon, the Harvard/MIT-Sloan Economic Sociology workshop, Copenhagen Business School, and the Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIE) Seminar Series for their helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this work. The authors contributed equally to this work.