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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 ... -
The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings
(Elsevier, 2015-05-19)What is the ownership structure of bankrupt debt claims? How does the ownership evolve though bankruptcy? And how does debt ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that ... -
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits
(Academy of Management, 2022-04)Past research has produced contradictory insights into how prior collaboration between organizations—their relational embeddedness—impacts collective collaborative performance. We theorize that the effect of relational ... -
Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach
(Academy of Management, 2014-01)Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and family ... -
The Past, Present, and (Near) Future of Gene Therapy and Gene Editing
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2020-09)Emerging gene therapy and gene-editing technologies will have a growing impact on patient lives and health-care delivery. We analyzed a decade of data on clinical trials and venture capital investments to understand the ... -
Patent Disclosures and Standard-Setting
(2017-03-23)A key role of standard setting organizations (SSOs) is to aggregate information on relevant intellectual property (IP) claims before deciding on a standard. This article explores the firms’ strategies in response to IP ...