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Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intra-Firm Mobility and Access to Resources
(INFORMS, 2017-04-04)Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing ... -
Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology
(Elsevier BV, 2017-01)This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, ... -
Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
(2013-05-21)We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative ... -
Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence
(2017-02-07)We provide new evidence on the agency theory of corporate tax avoidance (Slemrod, 2004; Crocker and Slemrod, 2005; Chen and Chu, 2005) by showing that increases in institutional ownership are associated with increases in ... -
Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets
(2014-11-06)We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which organizations navigate institutionally diverse settings and capture rents outside of the marketplace. We synthesize this body of ... -
Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele
(2014-04-24)In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm’s investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term oriented investor base with ... -
Integrated Reporting for a Re-Imagined Capitalism
(2015-09-28)An essential element of capitalism is corporate reporting. Today’s capitalism is supported by financial reporting. Critics of today’s capitalism argue that it is too short-term oriented and rewards companies for creating ... -
Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China
(2017-03-22)Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases ... -
Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies
(2019-10)Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder ... -
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
(2015-09-25)In recent decades, technological progress in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their ... -
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-04)In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. ... -
International Data on Measuring Management Practices
(American Economic Association, 2016-05)We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and organizational practices. We contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open-ended questions" (e.g., World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (e.g., ... -
The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization
(De Gruyter, 2013)The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international ... -
The Interrelationships Between Brand and Channel Choice
(Springer, 2014)We propose a framework for the joint study of the consumer's decision of where to buy and what to buy. The framework is rooted in utility theory where the utility is for a particular channel/brand combination. The framework ... -
Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions*
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020-07-15)This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on ... -
Introduction to Argentine Exceptionalism
(Springer Nature, 2018-12)This article is an introduction to the special collection on Argentine Exceptionalism. First, we discuss why the case of Argentina is generally regarded as exceptional: the country was among the richest in the world at the ... -
Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT
(American Economic Association, 2016-05)We document that the Bay Area rose from 4% of all successful US patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even ... -
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
(2017-06-28)Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile ... -
Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity
(Elsevier BV, 2022-01)Using previously unexplored custodial data, we examine alternative investment vehicles (AVs) in private equity (PE) funds over the last four decades. By 2017, AVs reached 40% of all PE commitments. Average AV performance ... -
Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-10-24)We study incentives to invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, ...