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Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information

Itamar Simonson, Emanuel Rosen
Harper Business New York 2014

Going against conventional wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework — the Influence Mix, a new way of thinking about consumer decision-making, which should help managers…

Journal Article

An Algorithm for Two-Player Repeated Games With Perfect Monitoring

Dilip Abreu, Yuliy Sannikov
Theoretical Economics 2014 Vol. 9 Pages 313-338.

Consider repeated two-player games with perfect monitoring and discounting. We provide an algorithm that computes the set V ∗ of payoff pairs of all pure strategy subgame-perfect equilibria with public randomization. The algorithm provides…

Journal Article

An Axiomatic Characterization of Wagering Mechanisms

Nicolas S. Lambert, John Langford, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Yiling Chen, Daniel Reeves, Yoav Shoham, David Pennock
Journal of Economic Theory 2014

We construct a budget-balanced wagering mechanism that flexibly extracts information about event probabilities, as well as the mean, median, and other statistics from a group of individuals whose beliefs are immutable to the actions of others. We…

Journal Article

An Ecology of Social Categories

Elizabeth Pontikes, Michael T. Hannan
Sociological Science 2014 Vol. 1 Pages 311-343.

This article proposes that meaningful social classification emerges from an ecological dynamic that operates
in two planes: feature space and label space. It takes a dynamic view of classification, allowing objects’ movements in
both…

Journal Article

AnEcology of Social Categories

Elizabeth Pontikes
Sociological Science 2014 Vol. 1 Pages 2014.

This article proposes that meaningful social classification emerges from an ecological dynamic that operates
in two planes: feature space and label space. It takes a dynamic view of classification, allowing objects’ movements in
both…

Journal Article

Authenticity and Consumer Value Ratings: Empirical Tests From the Restaurant Domain

Balázs Kovács, Glenn R. Carroll, David W. Lehman
Organization Science 2014 Vol. 25 Issue 2 Pages 458-478.

We present two studies that together test a fundamental yet rarely examined assumption underlying the contemporary appeal of authenticity — namely, that consumers assign higher value ratings to organizations regarded as authentic. Study 1…

Book Chapter

Biology, Evolution and Organizations: Promises and Challenges in Building the Foundations

Glenn R. Carroll, Kieran O'Connor
Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior University of Chicago Press Chicago 2014

Review and critical analysis of innovative book on biological approaches to organizational behavior.

Journal Article

Breaking Down the Wall between Church and State: State Adoption of Religious Inclusion Legislation, 1995–2009

Keith Gunnar Bentele, Rebecca Sager, Sarah A. Soule, Gary Adler, Jr.
Journal of Church and State 2014 Vol. 56 Issue 3 Pages 503–533.

The Journal of Church and State is concerned with what has been called the “greatest subject in the history of the West.” It seeks to stimulate interest, dialogue, research, and publication in the broad area of religion and the state. JCS…

Journal Article

Catch-up and fall-back through innovation and imitation

Jess Benhabib, Jesse Perla, Christopher Tonetti
Journal of Economic Growth 2014 Vol. 19 Issue 1 Pages 1-35.

Will fast growing emerging economies sustain rapid growth rates until they “catch-up” to the technology frontier? Are there incentives for some developed countries to free-ride off of innovators and optimally “fall-back” relative to the frontier…

Book

Conceptions of Leadership: Enduring Ideas and Emerging Insights

G. R. Goethals, S. T. Allison, Roderick M. Kramer, D. M. Messick
Palgrave/McMillan New York 2014

This book compiles recent innovations in qualitative methods for studying organizations.

Book Chapter

Creating and Maintaining Trust: How and Why Some Leaders Get It Right

Roderick M. Kramer, Kimberly D. Elsbach
Conceptions of Leadership Palgrave New York 2014 Pages 127-145.

When asked to testify before Congress as to the lessons, if any, Americans could derive from the Iran-Contra fiasco that nearly felled the Reagan administration, then-Secretary of State George Schultz famously asserted that, when it comes to…

Book Chapter

Creating more trusting and trustworthy organizations: Exploring the foundations and benefits of presumptive trust

Roderick M. Kramer
Public Trust in Business Cambridge University Press New York 2014 Pages 203-235.

The situation Low trust has become virtually a default assumption, especially when it comes to the public’s expectations regarding the fundamental trustworthiness of American business and its leaders. Key questions What precisely can be done to…

Book Chapter

Decisions in Organizations

John Roberts (1945–2026), Robert Gibbons, Niko Matouschek
Handbook of Organizational Economics 2014
Journal Article

Determinants of Regional Sport Network Television Ratings in MLB, NBA, and NHL

George Foster, Norman O’Reilly, Carlos Shimizu, Neal Khosla, Ryan Murray
Journal of Sports Management 2014

This paper examines the determinants of live game Regional Sport Network average annual ratings in three major North American professional sport leagues: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National…

Journal Article

Discretionary Disclosure using a Certifier

Swaminathan Sridharan
Journal of Accounting and Economics (Conditional Accept) 2014
Journal Article

Discretionary Disclosures using a Certifier

Swaminathan Sridharan
Journal of Accounting and Economics (Conditional Accept) 2014
Journal Article

Disentangling the Personal and Partisan Incumbency Advantages: Evidence from Close Elections and Term Limits

Anthony Fowler, Andrew B. Hall
Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2014 Vol. 9 Issue 4 Pages 501–531.

Although the scholarly literature on incumbency advantages focuses on personal advantages, the partisan incumbency advantage — the electoral benefit accruing to non-incumbent candidates by virtue of being…

Working Paper

Disruption Risk and Optimal Sourcing in Multi-tier Supply Networks

Dan A. Iancu, Erjie Ang, Robert Swinney
2014

We study sourcing in a supply chain with three levels: a manufacturer, Tier 1 suppliers, and Tier 2 suppliers prone to disruption from, e.g., natural disasters like earthquakes or floods. The manufacturer may not directly dictate which Tier 2…

Book Chapter

Economic Theories of Incentives in Organizations

Robert Gibbons, John Roberts (1945–2026)
The Handbook of Organizational Economics Princeton UP 2014
Journal Article

Efficient Credit Policies in a Housing Debt Crisis

Janice Eberly, Arvind Krishnamurthy
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2014 Issue Fall

Should another housing market crash occur, the government’s highest priority should be helping cash-short homeowners maintain spending in a weak economy and avoid foreclosure by temporarily reducing or deferring mortgage payments.

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