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Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems
(Academy of Management, 2022-01)Gregory, Henfridsson, Kaganer, and Kyriakou (2020) highlight the important role of data and AI as strategic resources that platforms may use to enhance user value. However, their article overlooks a significant conceptual ... -
Assessing the Food and Drug Administration’s Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
(JMIR Publications Inc., 2020-10-26)BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, ... -
Assessing the Quality of Quality Assessment: The Role of Scheduling
(2017-06-28)Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. This paper explores how the scheduling of inspections risks introducing ... -
Asset Price Dynamics in Partially Segmented Markets
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-09)We develop a model in which capital moves quickly within an asset class but slowly between asset classes. While most investors specialize in a single asset class, a handful of generalists can gradually reallocate capital ... -
Association of the Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record Incentive Program with Health Information Technology Venture Capital Funding
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2020-03)IMPORTANCE: Although the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has accelerated electronic health record (EHR) adoption since its passage, clinician satisfaction with EHRs remains low, ... -
Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment
(2017-03-22)Assortment rotation – the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers – has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. Fast-fashion ... -
Asymmetric Effects of Favorable and Unfavorable Information on Decision-making Under Ambiguity
(INFORMS, 2015-12-01)Most daily decisions involve uncertainty about outcome probabilities arising from incomplete knowledge, i.e., ambiguity. We explore how the addition of partial information affects these types of choices using theoretical ... -
Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan
(2012)We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama's failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest ... -
Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards
(2015-01-20)We examine how Big N auditors’ changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973–2006). We examine the influence of auditors’ lobbying incentives arising ... -
Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
(Elsevier, 2014)Organizations often use non-monetary awards to incentivize performance. Awards may affect behavior through several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social ... -
Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors
(Elsevier, 2015)We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks when they compete with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks ... -
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
(American Economic Association, 2013)Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the ... -
BATNAs in Negotiation: Common Errors and Three Kinds of "No"
(2017-01-20)The Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement ("BATNA") concept in negotiation has proved to be immensely useful. It is widely accepted that a more attractive BATNA (“walkaway option”) often increases one’s bargaining ... -
Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy
(2016-03-03)Research has examined firms’ use of rhetoric and symbolic activities in the process of creating new markets. This study analyzes how entrepreneurial firms use these cultural strategies to position themselves in a nascent ... -
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
(Emerald, 2022-10-19)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a ... -
Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty
(2012)Early research and teaching on ethics focused on either a moral development perspective or philosophical approaches, and used a normative approach by focusing on the question of how people should act when resolving ethical ... -
Behavioral Household Finance
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Beliefs about Gender
(American Economic Association, 2019-03)We conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. The data reveal two patterns. First, men’s and women’s beliefs ... -
The Benefit of Power Posing Before a High-Stakes Social Evaluation
(2012-09-12)The current experiment tested whether changing one‘s nonverbal behavior prior to a high-stakes social evaluation could improve performance in the evaluated task. Participants adopted expansive, open (high-power) poses, or ... -
Beyond Bedlam: How Consumers and Brands Alike Are Playing the Web
(DeGruyter, 2014)The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas intelligible only to their ...