Building on the notion of cumulative advantage, we undertake a nuanced examination of how collaborating with a star affects attributions of credit and blame to nonstars in collaborative endeavors. Situating our inquiry in the US hedge fund industry, we hypothesize two-way interactions predicting that collaboration with a star comanager will weaken both the positive effect of comanaged fund success and the negative effect of comanaged fund failure on nonstar managers’ professional status attainment (i.e., the status of a manager's subsequent employing firm). Specifically, we argue that the involvement of a star comanager will weaken prospective employers’ attributions for positive or negative performance to a focal nonstar manager, due to presumptions of the star's disproportionate influence in collaborative decisions. We then theorize a series of three-way interactions specifying the roles of other signals of a nonstar manager's competence in this process. More precisely, we argue that a nonstar's performance outside the collaborative context and the status of the nonstar's current employer will weaken the dampening effect of comanaging with a star in the context of success and strengthen the favorable, blame-reducing effect of comanaging with a star in the context of failure. Therefore, we suggest that nonstars who can signal their competence with these independent status signals will achieve greater professional status attainment than will those lacking such signals following both collaborative success and collaborative failure with a star. Our primary analyses support our hypotheses, while our supplementary analyses offer corroborative support for theorized mechanisms and evidence to address alternative explanations.

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阴影和盾牌：明星限制他们的合作者暴露于功劳和责备的归因

基于累积优势的概念，我们对与明星合作如何影响协作努力中对非明星的功劳和责任的归因进行了细致入微的研究。将我们的调查置于美国对冲基金行业，我们假设双向互动预测与明星经理人的合作将削弱共同管理基金成功的积极影响和共同管理基金失败对非明星经理职业地位获得的负面影响（即，经理随后雇用公司的状态）。具体而言，我们认为，由于明星对协作决策的影响不成比例的假设，明星经理的参与将削弱潜在雇主对核心非明星经理的积极或消极表现的归因。然后我们将一系列三向交互理论化，指定非明星经理能力的其他信号在此过程中的作用。更准确地说，我们认为非明星在合作环境之外的表现和非明星当前雇主的地位将削弱成功背景下与明星共事的抑制作用，并加强与明星共事的有利的、减少指责的效果在失败的情况下。因此，我们建议，在与明星合作成功和合作失败后，能够用这些独立地位信号表明他们能力的非明星将比缺乏这些信号的非明星获得更大的职业地位。我们的主要分析支持我们的假设，