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Tommy Koh and the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement: A Multi-Front "Negotiation Campaign"
(2015-01-09)Complex, multiparty negotiations are often analyzed as principals negotiating through agents, as two-level games (Putnam 1988), or in coalitional terms. The relatively new concept of a "multi-front negotiation campaign" ... -
Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology
(Elsevier BV, 2023-09)We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian ... -
Toward a Theory of Extended Contact: The Incentives and Opportunities for Bridging Across Network Communities
(INFORMS, 2012)This study investigates the determinants of bridging ties within networks of interconnected firms. Bridging ties are defined as nonredundant connections between firms located in different network communities. We highlight ... -
Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation
(Society of American Archivists, 2019-06)Digital preservation relies on technological infrastructure (information and communication technology, ICT) that has considerable negative environmental impacts, which in turn threaten the very organizations tasked with ... -
Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition
(2016-08-24)The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back ... -
Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting
(Elsevier, 2013)We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting: we examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" ... -
Toxic Workers
(2015-11-03)While there has been a lot of research on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers who are harmful to organizational performance. ... -
Trade Credit and Taxes
(MIT Press - Journals, 2016-03)This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns encourage the use of trade credit to reallocate capital from ... -
Transition to Clean Technology
(2014-12-12)We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty ... -
The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control
(SAGE Publications, 2012)Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on ... -
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
(MIT Press - Journals, 2012)We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns and the consequent implications for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique microlevel data ... -
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
(2017-06-28)What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from ... -
Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities?
(Academy of Management, 2019-01)The mobilization of resources is a central and defining feature of entrepreneurship. As the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. ... -
The Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances
(2012)This paper unpacks two underspecified facets of collaboration: cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key ... -
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
(2014-01-13)High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of ... -
Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns
(Elsevier, 2016-06-17)There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as changes in Tobin's Q or past stock returns, and equity issues. Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the ... -
Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
(2012)We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 Chilean micro-entrepreneurs. The first experiment finds that self-help ... -
Undisclosed Debt Sustainability
(American Economic Association, 2022-05-01)Over the past decade, non-Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low- and middle-income countries. In contrast with typical sovereign debt, these lending arrangements are not ... -
Unexpected benefits of deciding by mind wandering
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)The mind wanders, even when people are attempting to make complex decisions. We suggest that mind wandering—allowing one's thoughts to wander until the “correct” choice comes to mind—can positively impact people's feelings ... -
Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem
(2012-08-07)Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it optimal to donate to other countries some of the windfall in order to make the state a less attractive prize to potential insurgents. We put forward a model ...