Organization Design and Incentives

  1. “The Influence of Pay Transparency on (Gender) Inequity, Inequality, and the Performance-basis of Pay” (with Tomasz Obloj), Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, 6: 646–655.

  2. “Organization Design, Proximity and Productivity Responses to Upward Social Comparison” (with Tomasz Obloj), Organization Science, 2017, 28 (1): 1-18 (lead article).

  3. “Problems, Theories, and Governing the Crowd” (with Jackson Nickerson and Robert Wuebker), Strategic Organization, 2017, 15(2): 275-288.

  4. “Valve Corporation: Composing Internal Markets” Journal of Organization Design, 2015, 4 (2): 20-21.

  5. “Open or Closed Innovation? Problem Solving and the Governance Choice” (with Teppo Felin), Research Policy, 2014, 43(5): 914-925.

  6. “Sailing into the Wind: Exploring the Relationships among Ambidexterity, Vacillation and Organizational Performance” (with Peter Boumgarden and Jackson Nickerson) Strategic Management Journal, 2012, 33:587-610.

  7. “Information aggregation, matching and radical market-hierarchy hybrids: Implications for the theory of the firm” (with Teppo Felin), Strategic Organization, 2011, 9(2): 163-173.

  8. “The Knowledge Economy: Emerging Organizational Forms, Missing Microfoundations and Key Considerations for Managing Human Capital.” (with Teppo Felin and Joshua Tomsik), Human Resource Management, 2009, 48 (4): 555-570.

  9. “Envy, Comparison Costs, and the Economic Theory of the Firm” (with Jackson Nickerson), Strategic Management Journal, 2008, 29(13): 1371-1394. Recipient: Olin Award, Olin School Best Paper Award, 2008.

  10. “A Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm—The Problem Solving Perspective” (with Jack Nickerson), Organization Science, 2004, 15(6): 617-632 (lead article).

  11. “Compensating for Innovation: Do Small Firms Offer High-Powered Incentives that Lure Talent and Motivate Effort” (with Sergio Lazzarini), Managerial and Decision Economics, 2004, 25: 329-345.

  12. “Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice” (with Jack Nickerson), Organization Science, 2002, 13(5): 547-566.

  13. “Informal and Formal Organization in New Institutional Economics,” (with Sergio Lazzarini and Laura Poppo) Advances in Strategic Management, 2002, 19: 277-306.

  14. “Crafting Internal Hybrids: Complementarities, Common Change Initiatives, and the Team-based Corporation” International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2002, 9(1): 79-95.

  15. “The Determinants of Incentive Intensity in Group-Based Rewards” (with C.R. Marshall), Academy of Management Journal, 2000, 43(2): 149-163.

    Recipient: Recipient Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Human Resources Division, 1995.

  16. “The Disaggregation of Corporations: Selective Intervention, High-Powered Incentives, and Molecular Units,” (with William Hesterly), Organization Science, 1997, 8 (3): 209-222 (lead article).

  17. “Explaining Organizational Diseconomies of Scale in R&D: The Allocation of Engineering Talent, Ideas, and Effort by Firm Size.” Management Science, 1994, 40(6): 708-729.

  18. “Why Do Employers Only Reward Extreme Performance? Examining the Relationships Among Performance, Pay, and Turnover.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 37 (1992): 198-219 (lead article).