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Symbolic Consumption and Alternative Signals of Status
(2015-05-26)
My dissertation is composed of three papers on symbolic consumption–how consumers use products, brands, and time to express who they are and signal status. The first paper (Brand Tourists: How Non–Core Users Enhance the ...
Essays on the Social Consumer: Peer Influence in the Adoption and Engagement of Digital Goods
(2015-05-26)
In this dissertation, I study how consumers influence each other in the adoption and engagement of digital goods.
In the first essay, I study peer influence in mobile game adoption. Although peer effects are expected to ...
Platform and Ecosystem Transitions: Strategic and Organizational Implications
(2015-05-26)
By most conventional measures of corporate success (revenue, market capitalization, global brand growth, etc.) businesses operating as multi-sided platforms (MSPs) and their associated ecosystems constitute the majority ...
Complexity, Contract Design and Incentive Design in the Construction Management Industry
(2015-05-26)
In this paper I examine how one construction management company uses contract design and incentive design to respond to aspects of task complexity and relationship complexity present in its construction projects. In terms ...
The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? The Effect of Crowdsourced Digital Goods on Innovation and Economic Growth
(2015-05-26)
The classic economic concept of the tragedy of the commons occurs when individuals overuse a public good, resulting in the complete depletion of the good. Comparatively, in the digital world public goods are non-rival and ...
Essays on Strategy and Management of Platforms
(2015-05-26)
In this thesis, I research the management of platforms by participating organizations and study the ensuing performance of both participating organizations and the platform.
In the first essay, titled ``The Impact of ...
Essays on Operations Management: Setting Employees Up for Success
(2015-05-26)
As a result of globalization, organizations expect more from their employees. While organizations have become leaner, the productivity requirements have not decreased. Further, there is greater importance being placed on ...
Strategies for the Non-Market Environment
(2015-05-26)
ABSTRACT 1: This paper examines whether mobile telecom operators with access to different
kinds of knowledge pursue different strategies in politically risky markets. Using
data from 2000-2010 I find that firms with ...
Essays on Human Capital and Executive Compensation
(2015-05-26)
The contemporary executive career looks different from the “company man” era of post World War II. At that time, executives rose almost exclusively within a single firm, learning the business over many loyal years of ...
Essays in Intellectual Property Bargaining and Trade
(2015-09-16)
In this dissertation, I present three essays on the dynamics of intellectual property bargaining and trade, particularly of patents. The first essay presents a game theoretic model examining the sale of intellectual ...