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The Role of polycentric governance technologies in digital knowledge commons

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Harris Kyriakou; A. Majchrzak; J.D. Wareham Document type: Working Paper

Understanding the role of network structure in the dissemination of cryptocurrencies

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Yegin Genc; Harris Kyriakou; L. Maruping Document type: Working Paper

Servant leadership and family supportiveness

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Yasin Rofcanin; Mireia Las Heras; Mª José Bosch; Aykut Berber; Farooq Mughal; Mustafa Ozturk Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) How does servant leadership trickle down to impact subordinates’ work and non-work outcomes? This study sets out to investigate the mechanisms and boundary conditions associated with this question. In so doing, we integrate two sequential mechanisms (family-supportive supervisor behaviours and work engagement/self-care) and a contextual condition (servant ...

Miscalibration in predicting one's performance

Date: 01/04/2021 Author(s): Isabelle Engeler; Gerald Häubl Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) When people predict their performance, they can be miscalibrated in two ways—they may mispredict how they will perform relative to others (misplacement) and how they will perform in absolute terms (misestimation). Prior work has yielded contradictory conclusions about the relative direction of these two types of miscalibration. Some research found ...

Debiasing the measurement of conditional conservatism

Date: 01/04/2021 Author(s): Marc Badia; Miguel Duro; Fernando Peñalva; Stephen Ryan Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) Basu’s [1997] measurement of conditional conservatism as the asymmetric timeliness of earnings underlies hundreds of studies. However, many subsequent studies cast doubt on the extent to which Basu’s measure captures conditional conservatism versus statistical biases or alternative constructs (collectively, “biases”), thereby questioning the validity ...

Targeted price controls on supermarket products

Date: 01/03/2021 Author(s): Diego Aparicio; Alberto Cavallo Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) We study the impact of targeted price controls on supermarket products in Argentina. Using daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods we examine the effects on inflation, product availability, entry and exit, and price dispersion. First, price controls have only a small and temporary effect on inflation that reverses soon after the controls ...

Managing the Value Appropriation Dilemma in Business Model Innovation

Date: 01/03/2021 Author(s): Yuliya Snihur; Raphael Amit; Christoph Zott Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)

Alliance governance mechanisms in the face of disruption

Date: 01/03/2021 Author(s): Arne Keller; Fabrice Lumineau; Thomas Mellewigt; Africa Ariño Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) Existing academic literature has discussed contracts and relational governance as the key mechanisms that help alliance partners address problems of cooperation and coordination. However, when an alliance undergoes disruption, the nature and extent of such problems may change, and so may the value of these mechanisms. This study advances a dynamic ...

Platform competition & the impact of algorithmic governance on Apple's App Store

Date: 01/03/2021 Author(s): G. Chondrakis; Harris Kyriakou; M. Pratto; D. Ringov Document type: Working Paper

Unbundling and managing uncertainty surrounding emerging technologies

Date: 01/03/2021 Author(s): Rahul Kapoor; Thomas Maximilian Klueter Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) Emerging technologies, while offering enormous potential for economic growth, carry a high degree of uncertainty regarding whether and when that potential may be realized. How can firms evaluate the uncertainty surrounding an emerging technology? To address this question, we offer a structured approach that unbundles the uncertainty surrounding emerging ...

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