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  • 2015
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A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations
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Pisano, Gary P. "A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-036, September 2015.
  • 2017
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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
Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Observation; Tracking; Monitoring; Surveillance; Learning; Control; Disclosure; Process Visibility; Organizations; Theory; Information Technology; Relationships; Measurement and Metrics; Management Practices and Processes; Leadership; Law; Knowledge; Human Resources; Communication
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Bernstein, Ethan. "Making Transparency Transparent: The Evolution of Observation in Management Theory." Academy of Management Annals 11, no. 1 (2017): 217–266.
  • 2014
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The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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Siegel, Jordan I., Naomi Kodama, and Hanna Halaburda. "The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-082, March 2013. (Revised January 2014, June 2014.)
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The Equilibrium Concept in Game Theory

By: Elon Kohlberg
Elon Kohlberg is studying the foundations of the equilibrium concept in game theory, which is to the study of economic systems what the notion of "equilibrium of forces" is to the study of mechanical systems. Although much of economic theory can be viewed in... View Details

    Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

    (with Adam Kleinbaum and Toby Stuart), Organization Science, 2013, 24, 5, 1316-1336.. View Details
    • 2011
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    Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

    By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
    Homophily in social relations is widely documented. We know that homophily results from both individual preferences and uneven opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that... View Details
    Keywords: Interactive Communication; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Behavior; Internet and the Web; Theory; Information Technology Industry
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    Kleinbaum, Adam M., Toby E. Stuart, and Michael L. Tushman. "Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-050, December 2011.
    • December 1971 (Revised December 1994)
    • Background Note

    Capital Structure Decision: Underlying Theory

    By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
    Demonstrates hypothetically and numerically the share price valuation impact of changes in a firm's capital structure. View Details
    Keywords: Capital Structure; Decisions
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    Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Capital Structure Decision: Underlying Theory." Harvard Business School Background Note 272-096, December 1971. (Revised December 1994.)
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    Contextualizing Patterns of Work Group Interaction: Toward a Nested Theory of Structuration.

    By: Leslie Perlow, Jody Hoffer Gittell and Nancy R. Katz
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Relationships; Theory
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    Perlow, Leslie, Jody Hoffer Gittell, and Nancy R. Katz. "Contextualizing Patterns of Work Group Interaction: Toward a Nested Theory of Structuration." Organization Science 15, no. 5 (September–October 2004): 520–536.
    • April 1983
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    Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self-Enforcing Contracts

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Keywords: Labor Unions; Contracts; Theory
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    Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self-Enforcing Contracts." Journal of Business 56, no. 2 (April 1983).
    • 2017
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    The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation

    By: Paul Green, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons and Francesca Gino
    We present theory suggesting that experiences at work that meet employees’ expectations of need fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill... View Details
    Keywords: Needs; Motivation; Work Engagement; Disengagement; Authenticity; Self-Expression; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Human Needs
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    Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino. "The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation." Research in Organizational Behavior 37 (2017): 1–18.
    • March 2017
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    Why Do We Hate Hypocrites? Evidence for a Theory of False Signaling

    By: Jillian J. Jordan, Roseanna Sommers, Paul Bloom and David G. Rand
    Why do people judge hypocrites, who condemn immoral behaviors that they in fact engage in, so negatively? We propose that hypocrites are disliked because their condemnation sends a false signal about their personal conduct, deceptively suggesting that they behave... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Psychology; Condemnation; Vignettes; Deception; Social Signaling; Open Data; Open Materials; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Perception
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    Jordan, Jillian J., Roseanna Sommers, Paul Bloom, and David G. Rand. "Why Do We Hate Hypocrites? Evidence for a Theory of False Signaling." Psychological Science 28, no. 3 (March 2017): 356–368.
    • 2000
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    Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms

    By: Michael C. Jensen
    Keywords: Theory; Business Ventures
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    Jensen, Michael C. Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
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    Beyond the M-form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
    Keywords: Management; Theory; Business Ventures
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    Bartlett, Christopher A., and S. Ghoshal. "Beyond the M-form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm." Strategic Management Journal 14 (Winter 1993): 23–46.
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    Distance and Political Boundaries: Estimating Border Effects under Inequality Constraints

    By: Fernando Borraz, Alberto Cavallo, Roberto Rigobon and Leandro Zipitria
    The border effects literature finds that political boundaries have a large impact on relative prices across locations. In this paper we show that the standard empirical specification suffers from selection bias, and propose a new methodology based on binned-quantile... View Details
    Keywords: Border Effects; Prices
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    Borraz, Fernando, Alberto Cavallo, Roberto Rigobon, and Leandro Zipitria. "Distance and Political Boundaries: Estimating Border Effects under Inequality Constraints." International Journal of Finance & Economics 21, no. 1 (January 2016): 3–35.
    • 21 Mar 2022
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    AI Chip Startups Pull In Funding as They Navigate Supply Constraints

    • 14 Jun 2007
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    Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory

    Keywords: by Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan D. MacCormack & John Rusnak; Video Game; Web Services
    • November 1983
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    Subjective Probability and the Theory of Games: Some Further Comment

    By: A. E. Roth and F. Schoumaker
    Keywords: Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling
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    Roth, A. E., and F. Schoumaker. "Subjective Probability and the Theory of Games: Some Further Comment." Management Science 29, no. 11 (November 1983): 1337–1340.
    • May 2016
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    Matching with Slot-Specific Priorities: Theory

    By: Scott Duke Kominers and Tayfun Sönmez
    We introduce a two-sided, many-to-one matching with contracts model in which agents with unit demand match to branches that may have multiple slots available to accept contracts. Each slot has its own linear priority order over contracts; a branch chooses contracts by... View Details
    Keywords: Matching With Contracts; Stability; Strategy-proofness; School Choice; Affirmative Action; Airline Seat Upgrades; Contracts; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability
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    Kominers, Scott Duke, and Tayfun Sönmez. "Matching with Slot-Specific Priorities: Theory." Theoretical Economics 11, no. 2 (May 2016): 683–710.
    • 1984
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    Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

    By: Michael Jensen and William H. Meckling
    Keywords: Managerial Roles; Management Style; Ownership; Organizational Structure; Theory
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    Jensen, Michael, and William H. Meckling. "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure." In The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance, edited by Michael C. Jensen and Clifford H. Smith Jr.. McGraw-Hill, 1984. (Also in Economics of Corporation Law & Securities Regulation, Posner & Scott, Eds, (Little Brown,1980); Jensen, Foundations of Organizational Strategy, (HUP, 1998); & Theory of the Firm. . . (HUP, 2000) and JFE.)
    • 2013
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    Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?

    By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'... View Details
    Keywords: Investing; Persistence; Performance Persistence; Theory Of The Firm; Venture Capital; Organizations; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation
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    Ewens, Michael, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-097, April 2012. (Revised January 2013, June 2013. Revise and Resubmit Journal of Finance. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19120, June 2013)
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