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Facilitating consensus knowledge acquisition by Andrew W. Trice.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Complementary capabilities in dynamic environments : the evolution of professional services in information technology product firms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The innovative firm must continually evaluate its boundaries - decisions often shaped through make-buy-partner evaluations and choices about where to define the firm's competences. Building off of earlier work that suggests ...
Organization-bound professionalism : essays on contemporary expert work
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The three essays of the thesis explore the role of organizations in professional work and the role of professionalism in organizations, by analyzing novel data from three distinct empirical cases. The first essay uses the ...
Financial reporting quality and uncertainty about credit risk among the ratings agencies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
I study whether financial reporting quality resolves uncertainty about credit risk by examining how it affects disagreement between rating agencies. I find better reporting quality is associated with less uncertainty about ...
Essays on information, technology and information worker productivity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
I examine how information technology (IT) skills and use, communication network structures, and the distribution and flow of information in organizations impact individual information worker productivity. The work is divided ...
Gendering professions : an analysis of peer effects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Professional identity is important both to professionals and to the professions of which they are members. In addition to being crucial for professional success at an individual level, and for the maintenance of professional ...
Financial reporting quality and the quiet Life by Mihir N. Mehta.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003) find that managers shielded from the threat of takeovers exert less effort to maximize firm value, consistent with a 'quiet life' hypothesis. I study whether the governance role of financial ...
Essays on social networks and information worker productivity by Lynn Wu.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In this thesis, I examine how information, information technology, and social networks affect information worker productivity. The work is divided into three essays based on tracking detailed communication patterns of ...
Dynamics of shared capitalism policies in a startup company by Joe C. Hsueh.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Shared capitalism is a diverse set of compensation practices through which worker pay, or wealth, depends on the performance of the firm or work group; compensation practices include employee ownership, stock options, and ...
Elements of equilibrium methods for social analysis.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971)