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Revenue Management in the New Age: Analysis and Learning with Dependency and Non-Stationarity
(2021)
In this dissertation, we focus on revenue management practices in the settings where the traditional assumptions are challenged because of the rise of social technologies in the new age. We develop theoretically sound and ...
Essays on Organizing Human Capital, Automation and Innovation
(2020)
In this dissertation, I explore how different modes of organizing and automation shape processes and outcomes of knowledge-based work within organizations. With advances in artificial intelligence and automation, firms are ...
Internal and External Antecedents of the Adaptive Search of Firms: The Multiplex Influence of Politics on Innovation
(2021)
Innovation by firms is often conceptualized as an adaptive search process. While a large body of research has examined what leads to effective search, it largely abstracts away the heterogeneous preferences and goals of ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
Principles vs. Profits: Is a Fairness or Business Rationale for Workplace Diversity Most Effective at Promoting Diversity?
(2021)
In today’s global world, organizations are increasingly committed to diversity. Yet, diversity in the workplace is a controversial topic that is often met with opposition. As such, organizations regularly attempt to justify ...
Examining the Economic Tether and the Meaning of Work
(2021)
In this dissertation I explore social processes as they relate to interpretations of financial dependence on employment and the meaning of work. In Chapter 1, I provide an overview of the dissertation as well as background ...
Behavioral Market Design for Social Good
(2021)
Market design studies allocation rules of marketplaces, institutions, and economic environments. In addition to solving the equilibrium solution for rational agents in strategic environments, real-world market design ...
Organizing for Entrepreneurship
(2021)
Why do start-ups succeed or fail to capture entrepreneurial opportunities? To address this question, my dissertation focuses on the organizational design of start-ups. To provide the intellectual foundations upon which ...
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation
(2022)
Business research and practice have emphasized the value of intrinsic motivation for over 50 years. In my dissertation, I argue that this valuation can have unintended negative consequences for employees. Specifically, I ...
Networked Miscommunication: The Relationship Between Communication Networks, Misunderstandings, and Organizational Performance
(2020)
In this dissertation, I introduce and define the concept of networked miscommunication – unintentional, aggregated effects of communication practices throughout an organization – and demonstrate its deleterious impacts on ...