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Origin Matters: The Differential Impact of Import Competition on Innovation?
(2015-12)
We examine the impact of import competition on firms’ innovation input and output. We conjecture that U.S. firms view import competition from high-wage countries (HWCs) as “neck-and-neck” competition and will respond by ...
The Growing Climate Divide
(2011-06)
Climate change has reached the level of a scientific consensus, but has not yet reached the level of a social consensus. The major obstacle towards achieving that end is the increasing partisan and ideological polarization ...
How Should Retirement Plans Be Organized?
(2016-10)
Americans have a tough time saving for their retirement. To make matters worse, the move from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution plans (DC) over the years has required greater investor sophistication, discipline, ...
Management as a Calling: A Blueprint for Management Education in the 21st Century
(2018-09)
Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for ...
Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network
(2015-10)
U.S. corporations shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s, creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation and director was connected through short paths and elevating ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene
(2015-01)
This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment (O&NE). But our review is distinctive for two ...
Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings from the Michigan Meeting
(2017-05)
This report and the conference it summarizes are an examination of how we, as academics, practice our craft; how we work to make it more relevant to broader publics and responsive to pressing societal problems. In May 2015, ...
The Climate Change Debate: A Greater and More Varied Voice from the Social Sciences
(2011-09)
As the debate on climate change in North America and Europe has heated up, the full voice of the social sciences, for the most part, has not been heard. Indeed, the relatively small representation of academic scholarship ...
Mentoring in Startup Ecosystems
(2017-11)
Effective mentoring programs are very difficult to structure and execute, even with the best intentions and reasonable budget. In this report we conduct a multi-institution empirical analysis of mentoring in startup ...
On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts
(2014-02)
We analyze the capacities of communities (or social networks) and courts to secure cooperation among heterogeneous, impersonal transactors. We find that communities and courts are complementary in that they tend to support ...