Publications

Article

Towards a Theory of Bargaining: An Experimental Study in Economics

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Negotiation; Information; Economics

2017
Article

Making Transparency Transparent: The Evolution of Observation in Management Theory

By: Ethan Bernstein

Observation is key to management scholarship and practice. Yet a holistic view of its role in management has been elusive, in part due to shifting terminology. The current popularity of the term “transparency” provides the occasion for a thorough review, which finds... View Details

2006
Comment

The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm: A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada

By: Jordan I. Siegel

This chapter features an admirable effort by by Morck, Percy, Tian, and Yeung to apply recent developments in law and finance theory to a longitudinal country-level case study. The authors closely examine nearly 500 years of Canadian corporate governance and analyze... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance Theory; Corporate Governance; Canada

November 2006
Background Note

Technical Game Theory Note #5: Private Information and Signaling Models

By: Dennis A. Yao

Discusses private information and signaling. View Details

Keywords: Information; Game Theory

Educators

1999
Chapter

Theory for Practice: Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations

By: D. A. Thomas and Karen Proudford

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Race

February 1994
Article

A Tale of Two Cities: Distinctiveness Theory and Advertising Effectiveness

By: Rohit Deshpandé and D. M. Stayman

Keywords: Advertising

1997
Working Paper

Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations: Theories for Practice

By: David A. Thomas and Karen L. Proudford

October 9, 2014
Article

Clay Christensen's Theories Are Great for Entrepreneurs, but Not Executives

By: Amar Bhidé and Pankaj Ghemawat

Article

Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein

We consider a model of technological learning under which people "learn through noticing": they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from available data. Using this model, we show how people with a great deal of experience may... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Learning

27 Jan 2014 - 28 Jan 2014
Conference Presentation

Deciding What to Leave Out: Pragmatic Philosophy in Design Theory

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

2011
Other Unpublished Work

Toward a Theory of Overlapping Cultural Repertoires in Global Collaboration

By: Tsedal Neeley, Ryann Elizabeth Manning and Mark Mortensen

1996
Dictionary Entry

Role; Role Ambiguity; Role Distancing; Role Set; and Role Theory

By: J. Polzer

Keywords: Managerial Roles

2002
Report

Technology Strategy: The Theory and Application of the Christensen Model

By: C. M. Christensen and Steven Milunovich

Keywords: Technology; Business Strategy; Disruptive Innovation

Article

'Making Book Against Oneself,' the Independence Axiom, and Non-Linear Utility Theory

By: Jerry R. Green

An individual with known preferences over lotteries can be led to accept random wealth distributions different from his initial endowment by a sequential process in which some uncertainty is resolved and he is offered a new lottery in place of the remaining... View Details

2018
Book

Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings

Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It... View Details

Keywords: Organization Theory; Environmental Management; Policy; Social Issues; Social Entrepreneurship; Pollutants