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Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times
(University of Chicago Press, 2023-02-01)Need fluctuates over the business cycle. We conduct a survey revealing a desire for nonprofit activities to countercyclically expand during downturns. We then demonstrate, using comprehensive U.S. nonprofit data drawn from ... -
Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney-Paired Donation-Revisited
(Wiley, 2011-04-26)Since 2008, kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of nondirected donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed ... -
A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition
(2015-11-04)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 ... -
The Not-So-Common-Wealth of Australia: Evidence for a Cross-Cultural Desire for a More Equal Distribution of Wealth
(2014)Recent evidence suggests that Americans underestimate wealth inequality in the United States and favor a more equal wealth distribution (Norton & Ariely, 2011). Does this pattern reflect ideological dynamics unique to the ... -
The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations
(2012-12-06)Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and allocation of resources. We investigate whether novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a ... -
Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017)Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one’s future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment ... -
Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior
(INFORMS, 2014)In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation ... -
On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
(Elsevier BV, 2021-03)We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate ... -
Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2018-09)This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in dealer agreements. MAP is a ... -
Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2018-11)We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory over a finite selling season. As common in practice, we assume the demand ... -
Open Content, Linus’ Law, and Neutral Point of View
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2016-09)The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content ... -
Opportunity Neglect: An Aversion to Low-Probability Gains
(SAGE Publications, 2022-09-26)Seven preregistered studies ( N = 2,890, adult participants) conducted in the field, in the lab, and online documented opportunity neglect: a tendency to reject opportunities with low probability of success even when they ... -
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
(2007)Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This paper shows that the standard Utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis answers this question in the ... -
Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate
(American Economic Association, 2012-08)Organ donations from deceased donors provide the majority of transplanted organs in the United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not ... -
Organization Design for Business Ecosystems
(2012)The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production ... -
The Organization of Non-market Strategy
(2016-05-06)The purpose of this paper is to explore how firms organize to engage in non-market strategy. To achieve this end, we explore the organization of non-market strategy via a formal model of the firm. The model is motivated ... -
Organizational Factors that Contribute to Operational Failures in Hospitals
(2014-01-13)The performance gap between hospital spending and outcomes is indicative of inefficient care delivery. Operational failures—breakdowns in internal supply chains that prevent work from being completed—contribute to ... -
Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives
(2017-09-08)Exploitive working conditions have spurred the development of formal organizational structures that deploy mechanisms including legalization—adherence to a set of law-like rules and procedures—and worker participation to ... -
An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work
(2012-12-06)We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from ... -
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
(2017-01-18)Emerging markets are characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments ...