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The impact of poverty on base of the pyramid operations: Evidence from mobile money in Africa

Aug. 21, 2021

Business models designed to serve those at the 鈥渂ase of the pyramid鈥 are an effective means to create employment and improve quality of life. However, the effect that poverty has on the performance of such businesses is not well understood. We address this gap through the context of 鈥渕obile money,鈥...

The Journal of Applied Psychology

How CEOs Respond to Mortality Salience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Integrating Terror Management Theory With Regulatory Focus Theory

Aug. 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. As chief strategists of their respective firms, how do Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) react to mortality salience associated with the number of new daily COVID deaths in the U.S.? To answer this question, we integrate terror management...

American Economic Association

The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity

March 1, 2021

How do early-life experiences shape political identity? We examine the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, an event that led to large changes in school racial composition. Using administrative data, we compare party affiliation in adulthood for students who had lived on opposite sides of newly drawn school boundaries...

Production and Operations Management

Kicking Ash: Who (or What) is Winning the 鈥淲ar on Coal鈥?

Feb. 21, 2021

US coal-fired generating capacity has shed nearly 25% of its footprint between 2011 and 2018. Multiple factors鈥攔egulation, natural gas prices, renewable energy adoption, and environmental activism鈥攈ave each been lauded by various stakeholders for this trend. To improve our understanding of this environmental technology transition, it is important to determine the...

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The Role of Volunteer Experience on Performance on Online Volunteering Platforms

Feb. 17, 2021

Online volunteering platforms allow humanitarian organizations (HOs) to recruit volunteers to work remotely on projects of various urgency levels. While the removal of time and space constraints enables HOs to scale up their volunteer force, HOs must manage greater heterogeneity in volunteers鈥 experience. We investigate empirically how volunteers鈥 experience impacts...

Journal of Institutional Economics

The Chronic Uncertainty of American Indian Property Rights

Jan. 7, 2021

Institutions are the stuff of social and economic life. The importance of understanding the role of institutions in economic growth is now widely appreciated. The Journal of Institutional Economics is devoted to the study of the nature, role and evolution of institutions in the economy, including firms, states, markets, money,...

ASCE Library

Gendered Knowledge Accessibility: Evaluating the Role of Gender in Knowledge Seeking among Engineers in the US

Jan. 1, 2021

Women are heavily underrepresented in engineering companies. Gender issues arise in daily interactions where employees may not seek knowledge from others when they need it, even if they know who possesses the knowledge, because they may find the knowledge holder difficult to access. In this research, drawing upon social role...

Springer

Resistance Will Be Futile? The Stigmatization (or Not) of Whistleblowers

Nov. 11, 2020

Does speaking up ruin one鈥檚 life? Organizational and whistleblowing research largely accept that 鈥渨histleblower鈥 is a negative label that efects one鈥檚 well-being. Whistleblowing research also emphasizes the drawn-out process of speaking up. The result is a narrative of the whistleblower as someone who sufers indefnitely. In this paper, I draw...

Management in Engineering

Gendered Knowledge Accessibility: Evaluating the Role of Gender in Knowledge Seeking among Engineers in the US

Sept. 30, 2020

Women are heavily underrepresented in engineering companies. Gender issues arise in daily interactions where employees may not seek knowledge from others when they need it, even if they know who possesses the knowledge, because they may find the knowledge holder difficult to access. In this research, drawing upon social role...

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