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Experimental Approaches to Strategy and Innovation
(2021-05-18)
Firms continue to adopt business experimentation to shape product innovation and help form business strategy. In this dissertation, I explore boundary conditions to business experimentation for strategy and innovation ...
Essays on Cognition in Strategy
This dissertation explores some of the implications of a richer conceptualization of human cognitive processes on three strategically important phenomena. Each essay explores its phenomenon of interest using findings on ...
Shifting Loci of Innovation: A Study of Knowledge Boundaries, Identity and Innovation at NASA
This dissertation explores how the ability to innovate is being transformed by the Web and the information age, as well as the challenges and opportunities the transformation entails. This research interest is fueled by ...
Finding and Keeping Stars: The Leadership Performance and Retention of High Potentials
High potentials (HI-POs) are employees who are most likely to become their organizations' top performers and senior leaders. Identifying HI-POs early and understanding the factors involved in their retention can help ...
Essays on the Emergence and Diffusion of Breakthroughs
This dissertation deals with the emergence and diffusion of creative breakthroughs. The first two chapters concentrate on breakthrough emergence to assess and expand extant theories of sources of breakthroughs, and employ ...
Essays on Retail Operations Management
This dissertation presents research on two topics in retail operations management: the inventory-based lending cycle and the impact of supplier inventory service level on retailer demand. The first study examines the cycle ...
The Experience of Production: Essays on Customers in Service Operations
Over time, the delivery of services has become increasingly co-productive (customers participate materially in the production of service outcomes) and inseparable from customer view. As a result, a distinctive aspect of ...
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nascent Industries
This dissertation explores the activities entrepreneurs undertake when launching ventures and innovating in new or nascent industries. Actors in nascent industries can play a vital role in shaping the future. Yet the ...
Does Privacy Make Groups Productive?
Transparency is one of the great cross-disciplinary themes of management and organizations today. Increases in transparency, or accurate observability, of activities, routines, behaviors, strategies, output, and performance ...