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Structural power, corporate strategy, and performance
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2021-03)
Research SummaryWe develop a structural theory of power to explain how an organization is indirectly influenced by others through intermediaries. Our theory begins by explaining why an organization can improve its power ...
The liabilities of foreign institutional ownership: Managing political dependence through corporate political spending
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2021-01)
Research SummaryThe benefits of foreign institutional ownership (FIO) have been amply researched, but there are also potential downsides to such ownership. High FIO can subject a firm to heightened regulatory scrutiny and ...
A recentering approach for interpreting interaction effects from logit, probit, and other nonlinear models
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2020-11)
Research SummaryStrategic management has seen numerous studies analyzing interaction terms in nonlinear models since Hoetker’s (Strat Mgmt J., 2007, 28(4), 331- 343) best- practice recommendations and Zelner’s (Strat ...
Behavioral Decision-Making in Operations Management
(2022)
In this dissertation, I explore the role of human decision-making in operations management. In the
first part of the dissertation, I compare the performance of teams and individuals in two canonical
operational settings ...
Developing New Ventures and Markets for Social Innovations
(2023)
“Doing good while doing well” has gained significant attention among management and strategy scholars. However, social ventures and markets that provide social innovations in developing countries face challenges in achieving ...
The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...
Financial Capital and Human Capital in American Corporations: How Ownership by Activist Hedge Funds and Index Investors Affects Employee Satisfaction
(2020)
Two major trends in the American capital market affect whether firms adopt a long-term or a short-term orientation. The first trend is the growing concentration of ownership of public companies by index investors, such as ...
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 ...
Being in Relation: Achieving Mutuality in Moments of Play
(2017)
Human connection is an innate human need. More than that, it is a rich source of life satisfaction, the purest expression of our humanity, and only in moments of human connection do we fully come into being. Such moments ...
How You Like Me Now? The Influence of Athlete Behavior on Fan Group Dynamics and Sports Consumption
(2017)
Within sports, membership in a fan base often constitutes an attachment to a team and its various personnel. As part of a presumed ingroup, sports fans will go about evaluating their favorite teams and players based on ...