Leopold Ringel is Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research examines issues of transparency and its impact on organizational processes as well rankings as a practice of publicly comparing performances. He is co-editor of the book series Political Sociology, published by Springer VS.Petra Hiller is Professor of Organization and Governance at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, Germany. Her research interests centre on cognitive theory of organization and public governance. She was Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford, UK, and at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain, and was Guest Professor at the Institute for Sociology at Vienna University, Austria.  Charlene Zietsma is Associate Professor, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, USA, and part-time Professor of Management at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, amongst others. She is a Senior Editor for Organization Studies and serves on the editorial board for several other journals.