Prof. Lisa Cohen co-edits special virtual issue of Administrative Science Quarterly

Congratulations to Lisa Cohen, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, for co-editing the special virtual issue of Administrative Science Quarterly in honor of Women’s History Month!

Prof. Ganju's paper selected as finalist for NIHCM Research Award

Congratulations to Kartik K. Ganju, Assistant Professor in Information Systems, whose paper has been selected as a finalist for NIHCM Foundation’s 27th Annual Research Award.

Professor Ganju’s Management Science paper “The Role of Decision Support Systems in Attenuating Racial Biases in Healthcare Delivery” with co-authors Hilal Atasoy Jeffery McCullough, and Brad Greenwood was selected by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM) as one of five finalists for NIHCM Foundation’s 27th Annual Research Award from a competitive pool of nearly 100 entries.

“The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to transforming health care through evidence and collaboration (www.nihcm.org).”

“Management Science is a scholarly journal that publishes scientific research on the practice of management. Within our scope are all aspects of management related to strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, information technology, and organizations as well as all functional areas of business, such as accounting, finance, marketing, and operations.”

Manufacturer’s 1-Up from Used Games: Insights from the Secondhand Market for Video Games

Authors: A. Kim, R.L. Saha, and Warut Khern-am-nuai

Publication: Information Systems Research, Forthcoming Abstract:

2020 SSHRC Insight Grants awarded

When Paying for Reviews Pays Off: The Case of Performance-Contingent Monetary Rewards

Authors: Y. Yu, Warut Khern-am-nuai and Alain Pinsonneault Publication: MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming Abstract:

In Sickness and in Debt: The COVID-19 Impact on Sovereign Credit Risk?

Authors: Patrick Augustin, V. Sokolovski, M.G. Subrahmanyam, and D. Tomio

Publication: Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming Abstract:

Scouting and Schmoozing: A Gender Difference in Networking During Job Search

Authors: Elena Obukhova and A.M. Kleinbaum Publication: Academy of Management Discoveries, Forthcoming Abstract:

Learning Through Crowdfunding

Authors: G. Chemla and Katrin Tinn Publication: Management Science, Volume 66, Issue 5, May 2020, Pages 1783-1801. Abstract:

The impact of an augmented reality game on local businesses: a study of Pokémon go on restaurants

Authors: V. Pamuru, Warut Khern-am-nuai, K. N. Kannan

Publication: Information Systems Research, Forthcoming Abstract:

The upside of financial fragility

In two recent studies, Professor David Schumacher charts the rise of large asset managers and examines their effect on financial market stability.

A Seat at the Table and a Room of Their Own: Interconnected processes of social media use at the intersection of gender and occupation

Author: Emmanuelle Vaast Publication: Organization Studies, Forthcoming Abstract:

Inventory in Times of War

Authors: Andres F. Jola-Sanchez and Juan Camilo Serpa Publication: Management Science, 67(10):6457-6479 Abstract:

We study how armed conflicts affect inventory across firms’ production facilities. We track 38,916 production facilities—including plantations, livestock farms, and factories—in war-torn Colombian regions; we also collect the data of 5,138 attacks performed by the two rebel groups involved in Colombia’s civil war. To obtain exogenous variation in the conflict intensity, we use a difference-in-differences model that hinges on the peace process between the government and one of the guerrilla groups. We find that when the conflict intensity increases by one order of magnitude, inventory decreases by up to 10.38%. Firms, however, barely reduce finished inventory during war; they mainly reduce raw and work-in-process inventory. To offset this inventory reduction, firms increase their cash holdings—that is, they shift their working capital from physical inventory to liquid assets. The location of the facility moderates the effect of war: when a facility is close to a distribution center—hence, inventory travels short distances—the firm responds to violence by aggressively reducing inventory; when a facility is far from a distribution center, the firm reacts less aggressively to war.

Theorizing Process Dynamics with Directed Graphs: A Diachronic Analysis of Digital Trace Data

Authors: B. Pentland, Emmanuelle Vaast and J. Ryan Wolf Publication: MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming Abstract:

The growing availability of digital trace data has generated unprecedented opportunities for analyzing, explaining, and predicting the dynamics of process change. While research on process organization studies theorizes about process and change, and research on process mining rigorously measures and models business processes, there has so far been limited research that measures and theorizes about process dynamics. This gap represents an opportunity for new Information Systems (IS) research. This research note lays the foundation for such an endeavor by demonstrating the use of process mining for diachronic analysis of process dynamics. We detail the definitions, assumptions, and mechanics of an approach that is based on representing processes as weighted, directed graphs. Using this representation, we offer a precise definition of process dynamics that focuses attention on describing and measuring changes in process structure over time. We analyze process structure over two years at four dermatology clinics. Our analysis reveals process changes that were invisible to the medical staff in the clinics. This approach offers empirical insights that are relevant to many theoretical perspectives on process dynamics.

Unveiling the relevance of academic research: A practice-based view

Authors: M. Marabelli, and Emmanuelle Vaast Publication: Information and Organization, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2020, 100314 Abstract: