Shifting metaphors, shifting mindsets: Using music to change the key of conflict
Authors: Linda M.Ippolito and Nancy J. Adler
Publication: Journal of Business Research, Forthcoming
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Twenty-First Century Leadership: A Return to Beauty
Authors:聽Nancy J. Adler and Andre L. Delbecq
Publication: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2018
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The Internet Trap: Five Costs of Living Online
Book: The Internet Trap: Five Costs of Living Online
Author: Ashesh Mukherjee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Rotman -UTP Publishing, Forthcoming in March 2018
Emmanuelle Vaast awarded ISR Runner-up for Best Paper 2016
Professor Emmanuelle Vaast's paper published in Information Systems Research, "Folding and Unfolding: Balancing Openness and Transparency in Open Source Communities," with Maha Shaikh has been awarded the runner-up for the best paper award for papers published in 2016 at ISR.
Desautels 22: top-tier management journals
Desautels prides itself on being a research-intensive management faculty that brings together scholars with a broad range of expertise, including mathematics, economics, psychology, sociology, and technology. Together, they address in their work issues of great importance to not only the business community, but also to society.
Designing distribution systems with reverse flows
Authors:聽Ayse Cilaci聽Tombus赂 Necati Aras, Vedat Verter
Publication: Journal of Remanufacturing, Vol. 7, No. 2-3, December 2017
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Bridging Practice and Process Research to Study Transient Manifestations of Strategy
Authors: Laurent Mirabeau, Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy
Publication: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (SI), March 2018
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At the intersection of Strategy Process (SP) and Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) research lies the focal phenomenon they share 鈥� strategy, which manifests itself in a variety of ways: intended, realized, deliberate, emergent, unrealized, and ephemeral strategy.
We present a methodology comprised of three stages that, when integrated in the manner we suggest, permit a rich operationalization and tracking of strategy content for all manifestations. We illustrate the utility of our methodology for bridging SP and SAP research by theorizing practices that are more likely to give rise to unrealized and ephemeral strategy, identifying their likely consequences, and presenting a research agenda for studying these transient manifestations.
The Strategic Role of Business Insurance
Authors: Juan Serpa and Harish S. Krishnan
Publication: Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 2, February 2017
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The use of business insurance has been traditionally studied in a single-firm setting, but in reality preventing operational accidents involves the (unobservable) efforts of multiple firms. We show that, in a multifirm setting, insurance can be used strategically as a commitment mechanism to prevent excessive free riding by other firms. In the presence of wealth imbalances, contracts alone leave wealth-constrained firms with inefficiently low incentives to exert effort (because of limited liability) and firms with sufficient wealth with excessive incentives. Insurance allows the latter to credibly commit to lower effort, thereby mitigating the incentives of the wealth-constrained firms to free ride. This finding shows that insurance can improve the efficiency of risk management efforts by decreasing free-riding problems.
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The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity
Authors: Juan Serpa and Harish S. Krishnan
Publication: Management Science, Vol. 64, No. 2, February 2018
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Firms in a vertical relationship are likely to affect each other鈥檚 productivity. Exactly how does productivity spill over across this type of relationship (i.e., through which mechanisms)? Additionally, how does the relative importance of these mechanisms depend on the structure of the supply chain?
To answer these questions, we decompose the channels of upstream productivity spillovers鈥攆rom customers to suppliers鈥攂y developing a structural econometric model on a sample of approximately 22,500 supply chain dyads.
We find that the 鈥渆ndogenous channel鈥� (i.e., the effect of the customer鈥檚 own productivity on the supplier鈥檚 productivity) is by far the most important source of spillovers. This is especially true if (i) the supplier has a concentrated customer base, (ii) the supplier and the customer have similar operational characteristics, and (iii) the relationship has medium maturity.
In the converse scenarios, we find, it is more important to have a partner with a portfolio of favorable 鈥渃ontextual鈥� characteristics (high inventory turnover, financial liquidity, and asset turnover) than to have a productive partner.
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Firm Expansion, Size Spillovers and Market Dominance in Retail Chain Dynamics
Authors: Jason R. Blevins, Ahmed Khwaja and Nathan Yang
Publication: Management Science, Forthcoming
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We develop and estimate a dynamic game of strategic firm expansion and contraction decisions to study the role of firm size on future profitability and market dominance. Modeling firm size is important because retail chain dynamics are more richly driven by expansion and contraction than de novo entry or permanent exit. Additionally, anticipated size spillovers may influence the strategies of forward looking firms making it difficult to analyze the effects of size without explicitly accounting for these in the expectations and, hence, decisions of firms. Expansion may also be profitable for some firms while detrimental for others.
Thus, we explicitly model and allow for heterogeneity in the dynamic link between firm size and profits as well as potential for persistent brand effects through a firm-specific unobservable. As a methodological contribution, we surmount the hurdle of estimating the model by extending the Bajari, Benkard and Levin (2007) two-step procedure that circumvents solving the game. The first stage combines semi-parametric conditional choice probability estimation with a particle filter to integrate out the serially correlated unobservables.
The second stage uses a forward simulation approach to estimate the payoff parameters. Data on Canadian hamburger chains from their inception in 1970 to 2005 provides evidence of firm-specific heterogeneity in brand effects, size spillovers and persistence in profitability. This heterogeneous dynamic linkage shows how McDonald鈥檚 becomes dominant and other chains falter as they evolve, thus affecting market structure and industry concentration.
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Market and Regional Segmentation and Risk Premia in the First Era of Financial Globalization
Authors: David Chambers, Sergei Sarkissian and Michael J. Schill
Publication: Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
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We study market segmentation effects using data on U.S. railroads that list their bonds in New York and London between 1873 and 1913. This sample provides a unique setting for such analysis because of the precision offered by bond yields in cost of capital estimation, the geography-specific nature of railroad assets, and ongoing substantial technological change. We document a significant reduction in market segmentation over time. Whilst New York bond yields exceeded those in London in the 1870s, this premium disappeared by the early 1900s. However, the segmentation premium persisted in the more remote regions of the United States.
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Two-Sided Reputation in Certification Markets
Authors: Matthieu Bouvard and Rapha毛l Levy
Publication: Management Science, Forthcoming
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In a market where sellers solicit certification to overcome asymmetric information, we show that the profit of a monopolistic certifier can be hump-shaped in its reputation for accuracy: a higher accuracy attracts high-quality sellers but sometimes repels low-quality sellers. As a consequence, reputational concerns may induce the certifier to reduce information quality, thus depressing welfare. The entry of a second certifier impacts reputational incentives: when sellers only solicit one certifier, competition plays a disciplining role and the region where reputation is bad shrinks. Conversely, this region may expand when sellers hold multiple certifications.
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To Thine Own Self Be True? Facades of Conformity, Values Incongruence, and the Moderating Impact of Leader Integrity
Authors: Patricia Faison Hewlin, Tracy L. Dumas and Meredith Flowers Burnett
Publication: Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, February 2017
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When employees feel that their values do not match those of the organization, they often respond by pretending to fit in. We examine how leader integrity influences the tendency to create facades of conformity, proposing that employees will actually fake more when leaders are principled. In a laboratory experiment (Study 1), undergraduate students whose values ostensibly differed from those of other discussion group members and the university administration created more facades when they perceived the discussion group leader as having high integrity. A two-wave survey of employed adults (Study 2) replicated the moderation effect and also revealed negative effects of facade creation on work engagement. In both studies, our results indicate that, ironically, when leader integrity is high, the tendency to create facades of conformity in response to low values congruence is magnified. Additionally, our findings reveal that positive attributes in leaders may not always result in positive responses from followers. The results from our study also show that facades of conformity may serve as a partial explanatory mechanism in the relationship between values congruence and employee engagement.
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Popularity or Proximity: Characterizing the Nature of Social Influence in an Online Music Community
Authors: Sanjeev Dewan, Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho and Jui Ramaprasad
Publication: Information Systems Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, March 2017
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We study social influence in an online music community. In this community, users can listen to and 鈥渇avorite鈥� (or like) songs and follow the favoriting behavior of their social network friends鈥攁nd the community as a whole. From an individual user鈥檚 perspective, two types of information on peer consumption are salient for each song: total number of favorites by the community as a whole and favoriting by their social network friends. Correspondingly, we study two types of social influence: popularity influence, driven by the total number of favorites from the community as a whole, and proximity influence, due to the favoriting behavior of immediate social network friends. Our quasi-experimental research design applies a variety of empirical methods to highly granular data from an online music community. Our analysis finds robust evidence of both popularity and proximity influence. Furthermore, popularity influence is more important for narrow-appeal music compared to broad-appeal music. Finally, the two types of influence are substitutes for one another, and proximity influence, when available, dominates the effect of popularity influence. We discuss implications for design and marketing strategies for online communities, such as the one studied in this paper.
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Social Media Affordances or Connective Action: An Examination of Microblogging Use During the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Authors: Emmanuelle Vaast, Hani Safadi, Liette Lapointe, and Bogdan Negoita
Publication: MIS Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2017, pp. 1179-1205
Abstract: This research questions how social media use affords new forms of organizing and collective engagement. The concept of connective action has been introduced to characterize such new forms of collective engagement in which actors coproduce and circulate content based upon an issue of mutual interest. Yet, how the use of social media actually affords connective action still needed to be investigated.
Mixed methods analyses of microblogging use during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill bring insights to this question and reveal, in particular, how multiple actors enacted emerging and interdependent roles with their distinct patterns of feature use. The findings allow us to elaborate upon the concept of connective affordances as collective level affordances actualized by actors in team interdependent roles. Connective affordances extend research on affordances as a relational concept by considering not only the relationships between technology and users but also the interdependence type among users and the effects of this interdependence onto what users can do with the technology. This study contributes to research on social media use by paying close attention to how distinct patterns of feature use enact emerging roles.
Adding to IS scholarship on the collective use of technology, it considers how the patterns of feature use for emerging groups of actors are intricately and mutually related to each other.
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