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Male Circumcision and HIV/AIDS: The Macroeconomic Effects of a Health Crises (with Eric Werker and Brian Wendell)
Theories abound on the possible impact of AIDS on economic growth and savings in Africa; yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to test the mixed theoretical predictions. In this paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations...
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Finding their voice: Time and the conditions that elevate participation of lower-power members in teams [Dissertation, data analysis and writing]
This dissertation paper develops theory about how gaining voice and “speaking up” by low-power members is not sufficient to create changes that benefit them and their low-power colleagues; that, in fact, speaking up when the team is not ready to listen results in...
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- March 1979
- Article
Determinants of Subunit Communication Structure: A Contingency Analysis
By: Michael Tushman
Tushman, Michael. "Determinants of Subunit Communication Structure: A Contingency Analysis." Administrative Science Quarterly 24, no. 1 (March 1979): 82–98.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday
By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees...
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Chauvin, Jasmina, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Tommy Pan Fang. "Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 30, 2024.)
- Research Summary
Bringing Individuals Back In: The Effects of Career Experience on New Firm Founding (forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this paper (with Scott Shane) the link between the career experiences of potential entrepreneurs and the decision to found a new firm is explored. Because of methodological and theoretical obstacles, sociological research on organizational foundings has largely...
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- February 1991
- Article
Stochastic Models of Interpurchase Time with Time-Dependent Covariates
By: Sunil Gupta
Gupta, Sunil. "Stochastic Models of Interpurchase Time with Time-Dependent Covariates." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 28 (February 1991): 1–15.
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords:
Commodities;
Coffee;
Mexico;
Foreign Investment;
Institutions;
Immigration;
Developing Agriculture;
Development;
Export Crop;
Emerging Market;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
History;
Capital Markets;
Business History;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
Summing Up Whether or not this month's respondents represent a self-selected sample of enthusiasts for the book, The Wisdom of Crowds, they agree that the findings it presents have strong implications for...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
- July 2022
- Article
The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others
By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of...
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Keywords:
Passion;
Self-fufilling Prophecy;
Lay Beliefs;
Interpersonal Processes;
Employees;
Performance;
Attitudes;
Organizational Culture;
Social Psychology
Wang, Ke, Erica R. Bailey, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 101 (July 2022).
- Research Summary
Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide
The organizational theory of the multinational firms holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination...
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- 2019
- Article
Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity
By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as...
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Ghasemaghaei, Maryam, and Goran Calic. "Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity." Decision Support Systems 120 (2019): 38–49.
- 03 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension
- January 1982
- Article
Empirical Analysis of the Commercial Loan Classification Decision
By: Robert S. Kaplan and J. Richard Dietrich
Kaplan, Robert S., and J. Richard Dietrich. "Empirical Analysis of the Commercial Loan Classification Decision." Accounting Review 57 (January 1982): 18–38.
- March 2010
- Article
I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time
By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max Bazerman
How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from decisions made for several days in the future? We use data from an online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay between order completion and delivery increases,...
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Keywords:
Time Management;
Service Delivery;
Internet and the Web;
Decisions;
Customers;
Retail Industry
Milkman, Katherine L., Todd Rogers, and Max Bazerman. "I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time." Marketing Letters 21, no. 1 (March 2010): 17–35.
- 2009
- Chapter
Institutional Work and the Paradox of Embedded Agency
By: Julie Battilana and Thomas D'Aunno
Battilana, Julie, and Thomas D'Aunno. "Institutional Work and the Paradox of Embedded Agency." In Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations, edited by T. Lawrence, R. Suddaby, and B. Leca, 31–58. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- June 2016
- Article
Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration
By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby
What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is...
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Keywords:
Inequality;
Work;
Mechanisms And Processes;
Stratification;
Labor Process;
Qualitative Methods (General);
Case Method;
Field Research;
Equality and Inequality;
Working Conditions;
Gender;
Labor;
Labor and Management Relations;
Air Transportation Industry
Chan, Curtis K., and Michel Anteby. "Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 2016): 184–216.
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and political implications, and we’ve...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
- 09 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries