Publications

Using product assortment to gain a sustainable differentiation is becoming increasingly difficult in the current retail environment and is likely to become even more challenging as the importance of location continues to decline and the share of…

This study uses personally collected data from 41 steel production lines to assess the effects of Japanese and U.S. human resource management (HRM) practices on worker productivity. The Japanese production lines employ a common system of HRM…

Considerable research in consumer experimental psychology has examined the self-expressive role of brands, but has found little support for the premise that the interaction of the personality traits associated with a brand and those associated…

We model a war of attrition with N + K firms competing for N prizes. In a “natural oligopoly” context, the K - 1 lowest-value firms drop out instantaneously, even though each firm’s value is private information to itself. In a “standard setting”…

The present paper applies the mismatch hypothesis to the contemporary American film industry. This proposition, successfully applied to the stock market, holds that failing to gain the attention of the critics who specialize in a product’s…

This study evaluates corporate voluntary disclosure of forward-looking information under the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Using data on earnings and sales forecasts issued by 547 computer,…

An integrated marketing and manufacturing innovation in this paper is a new substitute product having different attributes and ( possibly) a different unit cost than the current products. We develop a simple single period model that is a…

Venture capital is widely believed to be an influential arrangement for the financing of new innovative companies. We examine and find empirical evidence that venture capital financing is related to product market strategies and outcomes of…

We offer a asynthesis of organization learning theory and organizational ecology. Organizations learn in response to competition. The learning then intensifies the competition generated by each organization against its rivals, motivating rivals…

Past research on dual process models of persuasion has documented that, when faced with information incongruity, individuals tend to form product evaluations by attenuating the less diagnostic information, relying solely on the more diagnostic…

This paper presents theories of strategic nonmarket participation in majority rule and executive institutions and a set of principles of nonmarket strategy developed from those theories. The theories are based on models of vote recruitment in…

Toeholds have an enormous impact in “common‐value” takeover battles, such as those between two financial bidders. This contrasts with the small impact of a toehold, in a “private‐value” auction, Our results are consistent with empirical findings…

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According to the “friendship paradox”, most people have fewer friends than their friends have (Feld, 1991). This provides an opportunity to investigate the operation of self-serving biases in estimates of popularity that are contrary to reality.…