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    • Tipping Points: Referral Homophily and Job Segregation 

      Rubineau, Brian; Fernandez, Roberto M. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007-11)
      How does referral recruitment contribute to job segregation? Current theory emphasizes the segregated nature of job-seekers’ information and contact networks. The job-seeker perspective characterizing most research on ...
    • The Alignment of Partnering Strategy, Governance and Management in R&D Projects: The Role of Contract Choice 

      MacCormack, Alan; Mishra, Anant (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-06)
      Firms increasingly look outside their organizational boundaries to identify partners that can improve the effectiveness of R&D projects. The strategy for using partners, however, varies significantly across projects. In ...
    • Gender and Race Sorting at the Application Interface 

      Fernandez, Roberto M.; Friedrich, Colette (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-06)
      We document gender and race sorting of candidates into various jobs at the point of initial application to a company. At this step of the hiring process, the firm has implemented a policy whereby organizational screeners’ ...