Journal ArticleManagement Science · January 1, 2025
The prevalence of racial bias in policing has long concerned social scientists and policymakers. This article studies a predecessor mechanism that constitutes an important source of policing bias in American society: calls by individuals to the police to i ...
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Journal ArticleStrategy Science · September 1, 2024
Ratings of organizations and firms have become ubiquitous. These ratings, often produced by intermediaries (including private and public organizations), are designed to aid consumers and other stakeholders in their decision making while guiding rated organ ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · March 1, 2024
Research Summary: We analyze firm-driven labor market search, where firms “hunt” for talent rather than rely on workers to apply for vacancies. We leverage three approaches. We develop a model of firm-driven search and derive equilibrium conditions under w ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organization Design · December 1, 2022
Many organizations have embraced formal experimentation, i.e., A/B testing, to improve the performance of their products and services. Experimentation, some have argued, should democratize innovation inside organizations by creating a platform to test new ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · September 1, 2022
Recent scholarship argues that experimentation should be the organizing principle for entrepreneurial strategy. Experimentation leads to organizational learning, which drives improvements in firm performance. We investigate this proposition by exploiting t ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · September 1, 2022
Long-term collaborations are crucial in many creative domains. Although there is ample research on why people collaborate, our knowledge about what drives some collaborations to persist and others to decay is still emerging. In this paper, we extend theory ...
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Journal ArticleDigital Business · October 1, 2021
Firms are collecting more data—about their operations, customers, and markets—in order to improve performance. Some of this data has value beyond a firm's boundary and thus can create value for other firms. Yet, we have relatively few facts about the growi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organization Design · December 1, 2020
Can managers influence the formation of organizational networks? In this article, we evaluate the effect of joint tasks on the creation of network ties with data from a novel field experiment with 112 aspiring entrepreneurs. During the study, we randomized ...
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Journal ArticleResearch Policy · November 1, 2019
When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup bootcamp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the p ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · September 1, 2019
Research Summary: We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent startup team's performance. We find that teams whose members lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · March 1, 2019
Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore whether the advice entrepreneurs receive about managing their employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technolo ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · October 1, 2015
Much research suggests that social networks affect individual and organizational success. However, a strong assumption underlying this research is that network structure is not reducible to the individual attributes of social actors. In this article, we te ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · January 1, 2015
Prior work has considered the properties of individual jobs that make them more or less likely to survive in organizations. Yet little research examines how a job's position within a larger job structure affects its life chances and thus the evolution of t ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · December 1, 2013
In this article we examine how social capital affects the creation of human capital. Specifically, we study how college students' peers affect academic performance. Building on existing research, we consider the different types of peers in the academic con ...
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Journal ArticleAdministrative Science Quarterly · June 1, 2013
In this article, we attempt to resolve the tension between two conflicting views on the role of specialization in workers' careers. Some scholars argue that specialization is a net benefit that allows workers to get ahead, while others argue that broad exp ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Networks · October 1, 2012
In this paper, we propose the application of a semi-parametric statistical methodology called Group-Based Developmental Trajectory Analysis to studying the dynamics of social networks. We begin with a discussion of theoretical problems in network analysis ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · July 2011
ObjectiveEvidence suggests that the medication lists of patients are often incomplete and could negatively affect patient outcomes. In this article, the authors propose the application of collaborative filtering methods to the medication reconcili ...
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Journal ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · November 2008
A physicians prescribing decisions depend on knowledge of the patients medication list. This knowledge is often incomplete, and errors or omissions could result in adverse outcomes. To address this problem, the Joint Commission recommends medication reconc ...
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ConferenceACM International Conference Proceeding Series · December 1, 2007
Educational materials designed to teach users not to fall for phishing attacks are widely available but are often ignored by users. In this paper, we extend an embedded training methodology using learning science principles in which phishing education is m ...
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Journal ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · January 2006
Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) use data from a variety sources to provide guidance to physicians at the point of care. However, several studies have shown that data from these registries often can not be trusted to be accurate or complete. For in ...
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