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Not All Events are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events
(2001-03)
This paper builds on prior theory and research on attention and identity to examine whether and how industries publicly attend to external events. Events are critical triggers of institutional transformation and industry ...
The Elusive Monitoring Function of Independent Directors
(2018-06)
Federal law mandates that audit and compensation committees of public companies be comprised entirely of independent directors. The assumption underlying these legal requirements is that independent directors are more ...
Using Patient-Centric Quality Information to Unlock Hidden Health Care Capabilities
(2016-08)
We document a wide variation in quality among 188 surgeons at 35 hospitals in New York state that perform mitral valve surgery. Our analysis shows that patients of different demographics and levels of acuity benefit ...
Ideation-Execution Transition in Product Development: Experimental Analysis
(2016-08)
Bringing a new product to market involves both a creative ideation stage, and an execution stage. When time-to-market constraints are binding it is an important question how to divide limited time between the two stages ...
The Pursuit of Success in Academia: Plato's Ghost Asks “What Then?”
(2019-03)
What do we pursue as we seek success in academia? For most, the path to academic success focuses narrowly on A-level journal publications, which has caused a stealthy but steady erosion in the very essence of academia. In ...
Dynamic Pricing with Point Redemption
(2018-03)
Many sellers allow consumers to pay with reward points instead of cash or credit card. While the revenue implications of cash purchases are transparent, the implication of reward sales is not trivial, when a firm that ...
Welfare Implications of Congestion Pricing: Evidence from SFpark
(2017-05)
Congestion pricing offers an appealing solution to urban parking problems. Charging varying rates across time and space as a function of congestion levels may shift demand and improve allocation of limited resources. It ...
Sources of Environmentally Destructive Behavior: Individual, Organizational and Institutional Perspectives
(2000-02)
Our specific focus is a multi-level analysis of the destructiveness of taken-for-granted belief and behavior. First, we consider how individuals are guided in their perception of environmental problems through cognitive ...
Can Trustworthiness in a Supply Chain Be Signaled?
(2014-09)
The relationship between a buyer and its suppliers is important and often relies on factors beyond the terms of a contractual agreement. Buyers can therefore benefit from identifying trustworthy suppliers. We argue that ...
Reconciling Professional and Personal Value Systems: The Spiritually Motivated Manager as Organizational Entrepreneur
(2010-02)
Today, many people hold a personal set of moral beliefs about the proper role of the corporation in regard to the natural environment. These beliefs are held at the level of the individual and are formed through personal ...