Publications

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…

This paper investigates the impacts of a secondary market where resellers can buy and sell excess inventories. We develop a two-period model with a single manufacturer and many resellers. At the beginning of the first period resellers order and…

In this chapter, we trace the historical and intellectual origins of system justification theory, summarize the basic assumptions of the theory, and derive 18 specific hypotheses from a system justification perspective. We review and integrate…

We synthesize organization learning theory and organizational ecology to predict systematic patterns in the founding and growth of organizations over time. Our central argument is that competition triggers organizational learning, which in turn…

We examine the association between the provision of non-audit services and earnings quality. Because of concerns regarding the effect of non-audit services on financial reporting credibility, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued…

This paper examines whether auditor fees are associated with earnings management and the market reaction to the disclosure of auditor fees. Using data collected from proxy statements, we present evidence that nonaudit fees are positively…

Prevailing research claims that strong corporate cultures improve firm performance by facilitating internal behavioral consistency. This paper addresses an unexamined implication of this argument by analyzing the effect of strong corporate…

*Reprinted in J. T. Jost (Ed.), Onalavetes a tarsadalomban: A rendszerigazolas pszichologiaja. Budapest: Osiris Kiado, 2003.

By the logic of many theories of organization, the dominance of large firms in an industry should hinder the emergence and operation of small specialist firms. Yet a variety of industries in modern economies display simultaneous trends of…