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  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

and valuation of the goods. However, we also show that firms' agency is circumscribed not only by the context they are embedded in, but also by the actions of other firms as well as noncommercial entities in the ecosystem. Q: Does your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

"marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. These findings are consistent with a simple mental accounting model but are not consistent with the standard permanent income or lifecycle theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division and Organizational Behavior Division. "First the embeds were quietly shown 'better ways' of accomplishing tasks by their peers-a 'ton of little tricks' that 'kept... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

Effective Self-Policing Authors: Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Publication: Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Administrative agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs both as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

materiality of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in credit ratings' methodologies and introduce the concept of "layered materiality." In the third paper, we will evaluate current and potential credit rating View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2022
  • News

Lesson Plans

I’ve observed it directly talking to teachers: extreme fatigue. People have theories about what’s causing it two years on Zoom, every week having changing COVID guidelines. Not just what’s going on in your work environment at the school... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

“good”—economic research indicates that people’s behavior often reflects such motives (Fehr and Schmidt 2006; Abeler, Becker, and Falk 2014). Perhaps this should not come as a surprise to economists, given that Adam Smith prominently highlighted such motivations in The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

  Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; Insurance; Private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Ownership; Ownership Type; Private Ownership; Relationships; Agency Theory; Business and Community Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

differences in motives and activities of not-for-profit organizations, and the need to develop additional theories to address those differences in explaining interorganizational arrangements between them. The Structural Determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

By: Jaeker, Jillian Berry, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee Abstract—We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Masculinities and the International Journal of Advertising, and his forthcoming book Refashioning Masculinity: Men and Fashion in the Digital Age will be published by the University of Chicago Press. Before his academic career, Ben founded the first modeling View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes legitimation processes and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

demonstrated how influence derives from instrumental agency as well as structural influence, but it has taken an unnecessarily restrictive view of politics and an overly materialist theory of power. Politics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne