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Three Essays On Competition And Misconduct, Parasuram Balasubramanian
Three Essays On Competition And Misconduct, Parasuram Balasubramanian
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines firm behavior in response to when regulators, market players or stakeholders address the issue of negative production externalities arising from firm activity. The first chapter examines how economic actors respond to an environmental regulation that seeks to foreclose certain market positions from future activity, in order to preserve natural resources. In chapter two, I examine how competition can have a monitoring effect on the likelihood of misconduct. Chapters one and two use satellite data on commercial fishing activity that allows me to observe fishing activity at a high spatial and temporal resolution. The third chapter addresses the …
Microfoundations Of Innovation In Organizations, Trey Cummings
Microfoundations Of Innovation In Organizations, Trey Cummings
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation weaves together three distinct chapters that are unified in their focus on the microfoundations of innovation in organizations. Chapter 1 utilizes a unique NASA employee data set to investigate the effect of promotion reward incentives on knowledge worker innovation. This study is the first to empirically show a positive relationship of promotion incentives with individual innovation outcomes in a field setting while also revealing a decrease in collaboration. This result exposes promotion structure as a potentially powerful tool for affecting innovation. Chapter 2 develops a unique measure of R&D structure and finds that the incentives created by long-term …
Essays In Knowledge Transfer, Leonardo Mayer Kluppel
Essays In Knowledge Transfer, Leonardo Mayer Kluppel
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation advances our understanding of when firms are able to get information from outside agents and the impact of that information on innovation. In chapter one, I set up a theoretical model that illuminates how vertical integration changes the incentives for producers to share information with suppliers. Both transaction costs and bargain ability play major roles in information sharing. One result from chapter one is that producers share less information with vertically integrated suppliers. The second chapter tests this prediction, finding robust evidence that once a supplier vertically integrates, it gains fewer spillovers from competitor producers. Finally, the last …
Exploring The Puzzle Of Functional Homophily In New Venture Founding Teams, Steven Michael Gray
Exploring The Puzzle Of Functional Homophily In New Venture Founding Teams, Steven Michael Gray
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Despite the long-term benefits of establishing a founding team with diverse functional knowledge, many entrepreneurs assemble a team of cofounders who are homogenous with respect to functional background. I examine this phenomenon in two empirical settings. First, in a university incubator program that brings together faculty, students, and outside community members, I use survey and audio data to examine the team formation process. I found that entrepreneurs initiate contact with a range of potential cofounders: some of whom possess functional knowledge that is different from the entrepreneur and others who share the same functional background as the entrepreneur. However, conditional …
Dynamic Pricing And Inventory Management: Theory And Applications, Renyu Zhang
Dynamic Pricing And Inventory Management: Theory And Applications, Renyu Zhang
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
We develop the models and methods to study the impact of some emerging trends in technology, marketplace, and society upon the pricing and inventory policy of a firm. We focus on the situation where the firm is in a dynamic, uncertain, and (possibly) competitive market environment. The market trends of particular interest to us are: (a) social networks, (b) sustainability concerns, and (c) customer behaviors. The two main running questions this dissertation aims to address are: (a) How these emerging market trends would influence the operations decisions and profitability of a firm; and (b) What pricing and inventory strategies a …