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Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery
(2014-01-13)Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm’s competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that the most significant impact was on employee morale, followed ... -
Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2023-01)Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations. But such relocated workers are often exposed to external employment opportunities at their ... -
Flexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of Non-Incremental Innovations in Incumbent Firms
(2017-06-28)Why do incumbent firms so frequently reject non-incremental innovations? One reason is due to the firm’s top management team’s (TMT) lack of frame flexibility, i.e., an inability to expand the organization’s categorical ... -
Food and Drug Administration Guidance Documents and New Medical Devices: The Case of Breast Prostheses
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021-01)As pressure mounts on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed its review process for novel devices, and budgetary pressures further strain its resources, the critical role of guidance documents in assuring consistent, ... -
Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion
(2014-11-06)In 1996, Intel Corporation announced the construction of a semiconductor assembly plant in Costa Rica. Production started in 1998. Intel’s investment was six times what had been the annual foreign direct investment (FDI) ... -
Fostering Organizational Learning: The Impact of Work Design on Workarounds, Errors, and Speaking Up about Internal Supply Chain Problems
(2012-12-07)A potential avenue for organizational learning is frontline employees’ experience with internal supply chain problems. However, extensive research has established that employees rarely speak up to managers about problems. ... -
Fostering Perceptions of Authenticity via Sensitive Self-disclosure.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2022-12)Leaders’ perceived authenticity—the sense that leaders are acting in accordance with their “true self”—is associated with positive outcomes for both employees and organizations alike. How might leaders foster this impression? ... -
Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data
(Wiley, 2019-06)As the ESG finance field and the use of ESG data in investment decision-making continue to grow, the authors seek to shed light on several important aspects of ESG measurement and data. This article is intended to provide ... -
A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting
(2013)This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., ... -
Fraud Allegations and Government Contracting
(Wiley, 2019-06)This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of defrauding the government, ... -
Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2020-06)We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different ... -
Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Mutual Funds
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-04-07)We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt crisis. Using a novel data set of security-level holdings of prime money market funds, we show that funds with large exposures ... -
Friends in High Places
(American Economic Association, 2013-10-03)We demonstrate that personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. ... -
Friends or Foes? Examining Platform Owners’ Entry into Complementors’ Spaces
(Wiley, 2018-12-29)As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the platform owners as direct competitors to their ... -
From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management
(Elsevier BV, 2011-05)For two decades, risk management has been gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; ... -
From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort & Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers
(2014-04-24)Online collaborative platforms have emerged as a complementary approach to traditional organizations for coordinating the collective efforts of creative workers. However, it is surprising that they result in any productive ... -
From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival
(Oxford, 2012-11-30)We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied ... -
Games of Threats
(Elsevier BV, 2018-03)A game of threats on a finite set of players, N, is a function d that assigns a real number to any coalition, S ⊆ N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy ... -
Gender Differences in COVID-19 Attitudes and Behavior: Panel Evidence from Eight Countries
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-10-15)The initial public health response to the breakout of COVID-19 required fundamental changes in individual behavior, such as isolation at home or wearing masks. The effectiveness of these policies hinges on generalized ...