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Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-07)Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about ... -
Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency
(2014-12-09)We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, ... -
Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
(2016-09-20)Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper ... -
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
(University of Chicago Press, 2013)We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released from prison and individuals released from electronic monitoring. Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, ... -
The Cross Section of Expected Holding Period Returns and Their Dynamics: A Present Value Approach
(Elsevier, 2015)We provide a tractable model of firm-level expected holding period returns using two firm fundamentals—book-to-market ratio and ROE—and study the cross-sectional properties of the model-implied expected returns. We find ... -
Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations
(2016-08-22)Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, ... -
A Cross-Species Study of PI3K Protein-Protein Interactions Reveals the Direct Interaction of P85 and SHP2
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Using a series of immunoprecipitation (IP) – tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) experiments and reciprocal BLAST, we conducted a fly-human cross-species comparison of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) interactome in a ... -
Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy
(American Economic Association, 2016)The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire ... -
CSR as Reputation Insurance: Primum Non Nocere
(2011)We provide a theoretical framework showing how CSR activities can insure a firm against lost reputation in the face of adverse events. We offer evidence for this linkage through a case study and a multi-year analysis of ... -
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-06-06)Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact ... -
Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics
(2014-01-13)Recent calls for greater openness in our private and public innovation systems have particularly urged for more open disclosure and granting of access to intermediate works–early results, algorithms, materials, data and ... -
Curbing adult student attrition: Evidence from a field experiment
(2015-04-06)Roughly 20% of adults in the OECD lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges offer fully government subsidized adult education programs to improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting ... -
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
(INFORMS, 2013)Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that ... -
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Cybersecurity Features of Digital Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Product Summaries
(BMJ, 2019-06)Objectives: To more clearly define the landscape of digital medical devices subject to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, this analysis leverages publicly available regulatory documents to characterise the ... -
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
(Elsevier, 2013-11-25)Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls ... -
Cynicism in Negotiation: When Communication Increases Buyers’ Skepticism
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014-05)The economic literature on negotiation shows that strategic concerns can be a barrier to agreement, even when the buyer values the good more than the seller. Yet behavioral research demonstrates that human interaction can ... -
Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews
(SAGE Publications, 2013)Many professionals, from auditors and lawyers, to clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of ... -
The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals, organizations, and societies. Here, however, we test whether creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote ... -
Deals in the Time of Pandemic
(2021-06)The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the period between signing and closing in M&A transactions. Transactional planners heavily negotiate the provisions that govern the behavior of the parties during this ...