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 ...

This dissertation explores some of the implications of a richer conceptualization of human cognitive processes on three strategically important phenomena. Each essay explores its phenomenon of interest using findings on ...

Firms continue to adopt business experimentation to shape product innovation and help form business strategy. In this dissertation, I explore boundary conditions to business experimentation for strategy and innovation ...

This dissertation explores how the ability to innovate is being transformed by the Web and the information age, as well as the challenges and opportunities the transformation entails. This research interest is fueled by ...

This dissertation examines how the management of human capital factors impacts firm innovation. The first chapter produces causal estimates of the asset value of inventors to firms following inventors' unexpected deaths. ...

This dissertation deals with the emergence and diffusion of creative breakthroughs. The first two chapters concentrate on breakthrough emergence to assess and expand extant theories of sources of breakthroughs, and employ ...

This dissertation presents research on two topics in retail operations management: the inventory-based lending cycle and the impact of supplier inventory service level on retailer demand. The first study examines the cycle ...

This dissertation explores the activities entrepreneurs undertake when launching ventures and innovating in new or nascent industries. Actors in nascent industries can play a vital role in shaping the future. Yet the ...

Transparency is one of the great cross-disciplinary themes of management and organizations today. Increases in transparency, or accurate observability, of activities, routines, behaviors, strategies, output, and performance ...

Over time, the delivery of services has become increasingly co-productive (customers participate materially in the production of service outcomes) and inseparable from customer view. As a result, a distinctive aspect of ...