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作者:Adner, Ron
作者单位:Dartmouth College
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作者:Pongeluppe, Leandro S.
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
摘要:What are the consequences of upward socioeconomic mobility for disenfranchised individuals? This article examines this question in the context of a business training program offered to residents of Brazilian urban slums, known as favelas. The study employs a randomized controlled trial complemented by quantile regressions, field visits, and interviews. The results show that training improves favela dwellers' economic outcomes, such as by increasing income and participation in entrepreneurship,...
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作者:Malhotra, D.; Gino, F.
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作者:Ocasio, William
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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作者:Karunakaran, Arvind
作者单位:McGill University
摘要:Status-authority asymmetry in the workplace emerges when lower-status professionals are ascribed with the functional authority to oversee higher-status professionals and elicit compliance from them on specific processes or tasks. Eliciting such compliance is ridden with challenges. How and when can lower-status professionals with functional authority elicit compliance from higher-status professionals? To examine this question, I conducted a 24-month ethnography of 911 emergency coordination to...
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作者:Eberhart, Robert N.
作者单位:Stanford University
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作者:Durand, Rodolphe
作者单位:Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
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作者:Corritore, Matthew; Goldberg, Amir; Srivastava, Sameer B.
作者单位:McGill University; Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:How does cultural heterogeneity in an organization relate to its underlying capacity for execution and innovation? Cultural diversity is commonly thought to present a tradeoff between task coordination and creative problem solving, with diversity arising primarily through cultural differences between individuals. In contrast, we propose that diversity can also exist within persons when individuals hold multiple cultural beliefs about the organization. We refer to these different forms as inter...
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作者:Grandy, Jake B.; Hiatt, Shon R.
作者单位:University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Southern California
摘要:Barriers to entry in regulated markets are frequently conceptualized as static features that must be removed or overcome if new entrants are to successfully enter a market. But government institutions regulating markets often comprise multiple levels that exist in tension with one another due to differing incentives and motivations. We argue that the principal-agent tension between elected officials and agency bureaucrats may render regulatory barriers to entry more malleable, even in the abse...
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作者:Abraham, Mabel
作者单位:Columbia University; Columbia University
摘要:While most research explaining the persistence of gender inequality has focused on how decision makers' own biases perpetuate inequities, a growing body of work points to mechanisms of bias that may arise when a decision maker is concerned with satisfying a third party or audience. Using data from 2007 to 2013 on 2,310 members of a popular networking organization for entrepreneurs, I examine the extent to which the presence of third parties leads to gender inequality in resource exchange, or c...