We explore how organizations exercise a significant degree of agency when interacting with the law. Using data on patentinfringementlitigation,we investigate how social structures among corporate plaintiffs’ lawyers and fede ...

This paper identifies the causal effect of U.S. multinationals’ technology shocks on their subsidiaries’ and nearby domestic firms’ productivity in China. By combining firm-level data from both the U.S. and China ...

“A promotion to managerial positions is a significant advancement in professionals’ career. But it also brings a significant challenge as they are given more responsibilities that go beyond those of a functional specia ...

When customers journey from a need to a purchase decision and beyond, they rarely do so alone. This article introduces the social customer journey, which extends prior perspectives on the path to purchase by explicitly integrating ...

The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers pe ...

We examine the impact of corporate board reforms on firm value in 41 countries. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that board reforms increase firm value. Reforms involving board and audit committee independence, bu ...

We examine how venture CEOs effectively engage their boards in the strategy-making process. Using the inductive multiple-case study approach, we track CEO–board interactions inside and outside the boardroom in dept ...

The latest disruptive research measures the way in which consumers of information react to that information in real time through a novel measure called moment-to-moment synchronicity (MTMS). In this presentation, Prof Wenbo WANG w ...

We develop a patent analysis approach to discover types of IT innovations and examine their technological and economic impacts. Our empirical investigation is based on 73,120 patents in the medical devices industry filed between 1 ...

We introduce a new measure of innovation based on important product launches by public firms in the US. Our measure is based on stock-market reactions to media articles – classified by a convolutional neural network approach ...