Knowledge produced in a firm is a source of competitive advantage, as well as a currency which can be exchanged both inside the firm and with other firms. Patents are a key mechanism by which firms protect the new knowledge ...

Corporate strategy --- what activities a firm performs --- and location strategy --- where it performs them --- have mostly been studied separately. However, geographic proximity enables the exchange of goods, workers, and ...

This dissertation consists of four chapters that propose a novel theoretical framework for understanding organizational creativity and innovation that I call dynamic problem solving. Previous scholars have proposed extensive ...

In these essays, I explore the role of accounting information and governance in emerging institutions. In the first essay, “Credibility of Disclosures in Weak Enforcement Institutions: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong ...

This dissertation consists of three essays. In Chapter 1, I study the beneficiaries of technology adoption in the workplace. I combine worker-level wage data with information on broadband adoption by Brazilian firms to ...

The management accounting literature emphasizes the importance of management control systems as means to monitor and influence activities in a firm. Whereas prior works in this area primarily focus on the design of explicit ...

This dissertation provides empirical evidence from high-stakes field settings of how productivity and quality are affected by workers' deviations from prescribed processes. The first essay of the dissertation explores the ...

In this dissertation, I utilize proprietary field data to examine two different management control mechanisms used by organizations seeking to optimize fit in their personnel decisions. I also describe my experiences ...

Organizations are inherently social contexts. As such, they provide opportunities for individuals within those organizations to forge close peer relationships. Though some scholarly research explores the ways in which ...

My dissertation is composed of three papers on the topic of improving consumer welfare—that is, designing psychologically informed interventions to help consumers make decisions that can improve their financial wellbeing ...