Obsession or Kindness?
The performance effects of creative imitation on original products: Evidence from lab and field experiments
Research Summary: A market entrant often challenges the incumbent using creative imitation: The entrant creatively combines imitated aspects of the original with its own innovative characteristics to create a distinct offering. Using lab and field experiments to examine creative imitation in China, we find the effects of creative imitations on the ...
Building a competitive advantage based on transparency: when and why does transparency matter for corporate social respo...
Customers today are increasingly demanding transparency from firms. This article discusses the concept of performance transparency and explores when and why transparency plays a key role for a firm’s CSR effectiveness. In doing so, it addresses consumer skepticism as the logic of the transparency-CSR interaction and presents empirical evidence of t...
Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact and the other-race effect.
People are better at recognizing faces from their own racial or ethnic group compared with faces from other racial or ethnic groups, known as the other-'race' effect (ORE). Several theories of the ORE assume that memory for other-race faces is impaired because people have less contact with members of other racial or ethnic groups, resulting in lowe...
Overcoming Conflict Between Symmetric Occupations: How “Creatives” and “Suits” Use Gender Ordering in Advertising
Gravity's pull: The identity-related motives and outcomes of hiring stars
Strategic human capital scholarship, alongside a wealth of evidence from the popular press, suggests that star employees can influence an organization's socially constructed identity. However, an overarching conceptual framework that explains these shifts has yet to emerge. In this paper, we draw upon Hatch and Schultz's (2002) theory of identity c...
The future of the web? The coordination and early-stage growth of decentralized platforms
This abductive study investigates how management occurs without managerial authority as part of a previously unseen organizational form—the decentralized platform with an independent market value. Our mixed-methods study of the cryptocurrency industry draws on fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analyses (QCA) to analyze archival and interview data a...
A recognition advantage for members of higher-status racial groups.
The other-race effect (ORE) is a recognition memory advantage afforded to one's racial ingroup versus outgroup. The motivational relevance of the ingroup-because of relationships, belonging and self-esteem-is central to many theoretical explanations for the ORE. However, to date, the motivational relevance of outgroups has received considerably les...
Using sports data to advance management research: a review and a guide for future studies
Sports contexts are increasingly used in management research to test and develop theory and explore managerially relevant phenomena. This growth in publications is likely driven by a series of advantages that sports data confers to management researchers. However, such positive features are not a panacea, as several drawbacks are also associated wi...
A new take on the categorical imperative: Gatekeeping, boundary maintenance, and evaluation penalties in science
Extant theory suggests that candidates with an unfocused identity – those spanning different categories - suffer from a valuation penalty because evaluators are confused by their profile, and concerned they lack the required skills. We argue that unfocused candidates may be penalized for another reason: they threaten established social boundaries. ...
