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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 ... -
Misvaluing Innovation
(2012-12-07)We demonstrate that a firm’s ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute, and yet the stock market ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show ... -
Mobile Money: The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand
(2015-01-29)The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks (“mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion ... -
‘Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice Technology Adoption Diffusion and Sustainability
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-01)Mobile phones promise to bring the ICT revolution to previously unconnected populations. A two-year study evaluates an innovative voice-based ICT advisory service for smallholder cotton farmers in India, demonstrating ... -
A Model of Credit Market Sentiment
(2016-08-22)We present a model of credit market sentiment in which investors form beliefs about future creditworthiness by extrapolating past defaults. Our key contribution is to model the endogenous two-way feedback between credit ... -
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
(2014-01-27)Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information ... -
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
(2015)Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information ... -
Monetary Policy and Global Banking
(Wiley, 2020-07-27)When central banks adjust interest rates, the opportunity cost of lending in local currency changes, but—in absence of frictions—there is no spillover effect to lending in other currencies. However, when equity capital is ... -
Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates
(2012-08-08)Changes in monetary policy have surprisingly strong effects on forward real rates in the distant future. A 100 basis-point increase in the 2-year nominal yield on an FOMC announcement day is associated with a 42 basis-point ... -
Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates
(Elsevier, 2014-10-28)Changes in monetary policy have surprisingly strong effects on forward real rates in the distant future. A 100 basis point increase in the two-year nominal yield on a Federal Open Markets Committee announcement day is ... -
Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015)Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on money demand. This paper asks whether the short-term liabilities of the shadow banking system behave like money. We first present ... -
Monitoring Global Supply Chains
(2014-02-09)Firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories are increasingly relying on private social auditors to provide strategic information ... -
Morality Rebooted: Exploring Simple Fixes to Our Moral Bugs
(Elsevier BV, 2014)Ethics research developed partly in response to calls from organizations to understand and solve unethical behavior. We examine two approaches to mitigating unethical behavior: (1) values-oriented approaches that broadly ...