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Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers
(Cornell University, The Johnson School, 2010)This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to explore variation in legitimacy in trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly ... -
Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India
(2017-09-21)Sex ratios at birth have risen steadily over the last three decades across much of the developing world. Many attribute this rise to improved access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound since 1980. This study ... -
Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data include manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, ... -
Matchmaking Promotes Happiness
(SAGE Publications, 2014-07-18)Four studies document and explore the psychology underlying people's proclivity to connect people to each other—to play "matchmaker." First, Study 1 shows that chronic matchmaking is associated with higher well-being. ... -
Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality
(2015-09-01)Under the prevailing ideology of “shareholder primacy” most boards of directors believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for ... -
Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital
(2013-05-22)This paper presents a methodology to study implied cost of capital's (ICC) measurement errors, which are relatively unstudied empirically despite ICCs' popularity as proxies of expected returns. By applying it to the popular ... -
Measuring Audit Quality
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-01-13)In this paper, we document 45 specific allegations related to audit deficiencies based on GAAS, as detailed in 141 AAERs and 153 securities class action lawsuits over the violation years 1978–2016. Next, we use these ... -
Measuring Collaboration in Modern Organizations
(American Economic Association, 2020-05-01)Internal communication has been a central theme in organizational economics, as employee collaboration provides insight into the structure of firms. Use of electronic communications data can be transformational for ... -
Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments
(2013-10-09)Background: Teamwork in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing high quality patient care. However, the behaviors that comprise effective teamwork, the organizational factors that ... -
Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008
(2014-01-27)I examine the processes and mechanisms whereby market demand for a "dying" technology re-emerges at a later date. In 1983, fourteen years after the introduction of the first quartz watch, mechanical watches, along with ... -
Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation
(2017-03-22)We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector ... -
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from ... -
Meta-Organizational Design: Rethinking Design in Inter-Organizational and Community Contexts
(2012)This paper provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple legally autonomous entities, which we call meta-organizations. We assess the antecedents of the emergence of such collectives and ... -
A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise Architecture and Evaluating Enterprise IT Flexibility
(2015-01-29)We propose a network-based methodology for analyzing a firm’s enterprise architecture. Our methodology uses “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs) to capture the coupling between components in the architecture, including both ... -
Mexico's financial crisis of 1994-1995
(2012-07-13)This paper explains the causes leading to the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 (known as "The Tequila Crisis"), and its short- and long-term consequences. It argues that excessive enthusiasm on the part of foreign investors, ... -
Microengineering in cardiovascular research: new developments and translational applications
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Microfluidic, cellular co-cultures that approximate macro-scale biology are important tools for refining the in vitro study of organ-level function and disease. In recent years, advances in technical fabrication and ... -
The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus
(2017-01-18)How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key structural consideration is the effective use of breaks from work. Breaks serve the critical purpose of allowing employees ... -
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
(2020-11)We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in ... -
The mirroring hypothesis: theory, evidence, and exceptions
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical dependencies in the work being performed. ... -
Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations
(2015-08-31)We examine misconduct in financial services. We propose a theory in which experts extract surplus based on the value of their firm’s brand and their own skills. Using sales complaint data for insurance agents, we find that ...