Publications

Although recruitment is a practical strategy young and poorly connected firms can use to overcome constraints on product innovation, it has received little attention. Younger firms and poorly connected firms have lower rates of product innovation…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between firm resources and performance. We divide firm resources into two types: primary resources and support resources. Primary resources include technological assets and…

Pubic policies such as regulation, antitrust, and international trade are the result of public politics and competition over who gets what with government the arbiter of that competition. Policies are also chosen by private parties without the…

After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply contracts may benefit by renegotiating the contracts to allow buyers…

When countries liberalize their stock markets, firms that become eligible for purchase by foreigners (investible), experience an average stock price revaluation of 15.1 percent. Since the covariance of the mean investible firms stock return with…

Four studies tested the hypothesis that observers tend to interpret others’ actions as approach motivated even when they recognize that their own identical choices were motivated by avoidance. Study 1 found that voters in the 2000 U.S.…

On grounds of inclusion of undesirable votes (type I errors) and exclusion of desirable votes (type II errors), we question the convention of selecting only final passage votes for roll call analysis. We propose an alternative selection method…

In the electronics industry and others, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are selling their production facilities to contract manufacturers (CMs). The CMs achieve high capacity utilization through pooling (supplying many different OEMs).…

To examine the consequences of a period of extraordinary success for the long-term adaptive capability of a firm’s strategy-making process, this comparative longitudinal study of Andy Grove’s tenure as Intel Corporation’s chief executive officer…

This comparative longitudinal study of Andy Groves tenure as Intel Corporations CEO (1987-1998) documents how he moved Intels strategy-making process from an internal ecology model to the classical rational actor model. His creation of a highly…

This paper develops a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change. It concentrates on the significance of changes in an organization’s architecture and culture, each represented as a code system. A change is significant when…

This paper extends a formal theory of structural aspects of organizational change initiated by Hannan, Polos, and Carroll (2002a, hereafter HPCa). This analysis focuses on the implications of limited foresight of the cascades of consequences of…

Building on a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change initiated in Hannan, Polos, and Carroll (2002a, 2002b), this paper focuses on structural inertia. We define inertia as a persistent organizational resistance to…

A unified framework is developed for representation of, and reasoning about dynamic games. A game is described by the subjective knowledge of players at hypothetical situations - the epistemic game form. Subjective knowledge - termed confidence…

The merger of British Petroleum and Atlantic Richfield as proposed would have made BP the sole operator and 70 percent owner of Alaska’s oil fields. The Federal Trade Commission challenged the merger partly out of concern for higher West Coast…

Homegrown stereotypes are generalizations that groups develop about their own –typical characteristics. They are a distinct class of in-group stereotypes in the contexts and processes that give rise to them, as well as in their consequences for…