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Consumer Preferences and Firm Technology Choice
Advances in technology change the way consumers search and shop for products. Emerging is the trend of home-shopping devices such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, which allow consumers to search or order products. We investigate how consumer brand and technology preferences may interact with the functionalities of technology-enabled shopping (TES) devices to determine the ...Read More
Preparing Organizations for Greater Turbulence
Vigilant organizations excel at seeing looming threats and embryonic opportunities sooner than rivals, which prepares them to act faster when needed. Four drivers distinguish vigilant from vulnerable organizations, which can be used to design a roadmap to improve organizational acuity and preparedness. Read More
Private Equity as an Intermediary in the Market for Corporate Assets
We examine the role of non-venture private equity (PE) firms as intermediaries in the market for corporate assets. We argue that in order to create and capture value by acquiring established businesses and selling them to corporate buyers, PE firms must possess at least one of three potential advantages: they must be able to identify ...Read More
Social Safety Nets and New Venture Performance: The Role of Employee Access to Paid Family Leave Benefits
This study examines how social safety nets providing paid family leave (PFL) benefits to employees influence subsequent business performance for entrepreneurial ventures. Read More
The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence From Online Retailers
Does the adoption of data analytics impact retailers’ performance, and if so, how? Exploiting the staggered adoption of a retail analytics service by more than 1,000 e-commerce websites, we find an average increase of 8-29% in monthly revenues post adoption. Read More
Doing Good for (Maybe) Nothing: How Reward Uncertainty Shapes Observer Responses to Prosocial Behavior
Consumers are often skeptical of social innovation (e.g., CSR), thinking that firms undertake such innovations to increase profit rather than to “do the right thing.” How can firms convey the social and monetary benefits of investing in social innovations to consumers and stakeholders to best improve their brand image? Read More
How Do I Compare? The Effect of Work-Unit Demographics on Reactions to Pay Inequality
Prior research suggests that individuals react negatively when they perceive they are underpaid. Moreover, individuals frequently select pay referents who share their race and gender, suggesting that demographic similarity affects one’s knowledge of pay differences. Read More
Rich on Paper? Chinese Firms’ Academic Publications, Patents, and Market Value
By combining various databases of academic publications and patents of China’s publicly listed firms, we explore the effects of academic publications on firm valuation. Read More
The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio-Pharmaceutical Firms
This study examines the termination of research alliances by established firms accessing knowledge from smaller research partners. We relax the assumption implicit in the internal tension perspective of alliance termination that signals from a partner are readily processed and acted upon. Read More
Navigating Digital Turbulence
When digital turbulence is the new normal, vigilant organizations prevail by following three navigation principles. Read More