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Supply Risks and Asymmetric Information.
(2009)
In the extant supply-risk management literature, most research assumes the manufacturer is as knowledgeable about supply disruption risk as its suppliers. In practice, however, a supplier often has better information about ...
Reputations for toughness in patent enforcement: implications for knowledge spillovers via inventor mobility
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-12)
‘Job hopping’ by engineers and scientists is widely heralded as an important channel for knowledge spillovers within industries. Far less is known, however, about the actions firms take to reduce the outward flow of knowledge ...
Sensemaking and Sensegiving: Leadership Processes of New College Presidents.
(2009)
This dissertation is a study of how new college presidents simultaneously learn about the organization while being in charge. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were completed with new presidents who were organizational ...
Creating Effective Global Virtual Teams: A Transactive Memory Perspective.
(2009)
This dissertation examines global groups at work through an intensive study of cross-national student teams and case studies of exemplar companies that work across boundaries. We consider the role of transactive memory ...
The Effect of Organizational Form on Firm Performance.
(2009)
While much empirical literature studies agency conflict and firm performance within the corporate form of legal organization, this dissertation studies agency conflict and firm performance across two organizational forms, ...
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Development of the Competitive Local Telephone Service Industry.
(2008)
In this dissertation, I examine how political environments influence industry structure and entrepreneurial opportunities following deregulation. Though deregulation implies a removal of government control, I propose that ...
The Creation and Performance of Classification Schemes: Rating Systems in United States Broker-Dealers 1993-2000.
(2008)
In the past few years, organizational researchers have found a renewed interest in categorization and its consequences. Most research focuses on the consequences of categorization for the categorized objects, arguing that ...