Popular Writing
“The Case Against Pay Transparency”
Harvard Business Review, September 2016
“Why Google Became Alphabet”
Harvard Business Review, August 2015
“Strategy: The Uniqueness Challenge”
Harvard Business Review, November 2013
“What is the Theory of Your Firm?”
Harvard Business Review, June 2013
“The Disney Recipe”
Harvard Business Review, May 2013
Academic Writing
“Creating and Capturing Value in Repeated Exchange Relationships: Managing a Second Paradox of Embeddedness”
with Dan Elfenbein
Organization Science, forthcoming.
“Network Prominence, Bargaining Power, and the Allocation of Value Capturing Rights in High-Tech Alliance Contracts”
with Umit Ozmel, Jeffrey Reuer, and Deniz Yavuz
Organization Science, forthcoming.
“Organization Design, Proximity, and Productivity Responses to Upward Social Comparison”
with Tomasz Obloj
Organization Science , 28 (1): 1-18 (lead article).
“Problems, Theories, and Governing the Crowd”
with Jackson Nickerson and Robert Wuebker
Strategic Organization, forthcoming.
“The Lemons Problem in Markets for Strategy”
with Mary Benner
Strategy Science, 2016, 1(2): 71-89 (lead article).
“Strategy, Problems, and a Theory for the Firm”
with Teppo Felin
Organization Science, 2016, 27(1): 222-231.
“Valve Corporation: Composing Internal Markets”
Journal of Organization Design, 2015, 4 (2).
“Open or Closed Innovation? Problem Solving and the Governance Choice”
with Teppo Felin
Research Policy, 2014, 43(5): 914-925
“What is a Relationship Worth? Repeated Exchange and the Development and Deployment of Relational Capital”
with Dan Elfenbein
Organization Science, 2014, 25(1): 222-244
“Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox”
with Lubo Litov and Patrick Moreton
Management Science, 2012, 58 (10): 1797-1815
“The Organizational Economics of Organizational Capability and Heterogeneity: A Research Agenda”
with Nick Argyres, Teppo Felin and Nicolai Foss
Organization Science, 2012, 23(5): 1213-1226
“Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and Firm Boundaries: An Integrative Theory”
with Nick Argyres
Organization Science, 2012, 23(6): 1643-1657
“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
“Theories of the Firm-Market Boundary”
with Teppo Felin and Lyda Bigelow
Academy of Management Annals, 2011, 5(1): 89-133
“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
“The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers”
with Dan Elfenbein and Bart Hamilton
Management Science, 2010, 56(4): 659-681
“Entrepreneurs as Theorists: On the Origins of Entrepreneurial Beliefs and Novel Strategies”
with Teppo Felin
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2009, 3 (2): 127-146
“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
“Envy, Comparison Costs, and the Economic Theory of the Firm”
with Jackson Nickerson
Strategic Management Journal, 2008, 29(13): 1371-1394
“Dealing with the Paradox of Embeddedness: The Role of Contracts and Trust in Facilitating Movement out of Committed Relationships”
with Sergio Lazzarini and Gary Miller
Organization Science, 2008, 19(5); 709-728
“Examining the Conditional Limits of Relational Governance: Specialized Assets, Performance Ambiguity, and Long-standing Ties”
with Laura Poppo and Zheng Zhou
Journal of Management Studies, 2008, 45(7): 1195-1216
“The ‘Problem’ of Creating and Capturing Value”
with Jack Nickerson & Brian Silverman
Strategic Organization, 2007, 5 (3): 211-226
“Opportunity Discovery, Problem Solving and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm”
with Chihmao Hsieh and Jack Nickerson
Journal of Management Studies, 2007, 44 (7): 1255-1277
“Are Capability-based Theories of Firm Boundaries Really Distinct from Transaction Cost Theory?”
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2007
“A Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm: A Problem-Solving Approach”
with Jack Nickerson
Organization Science, 2004, 15(6): 617-632
“Order with Some Law: Complementarity vs. Substitution of Formal and Informal Arrangements”
with Sergio Lazzarini and Gary Miller
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2004, 20 (2): 261-298
“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
“Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice”
with Jack Nickerson
Organization Science, 2002, 13(5): 547-566
“Do Formal Contracts and Relational Governance Function as Substitutes or Complements?”
with Laura Poppo
Strategic Management Journal, 2002, 23(8): 707- 725
“Informal and Formal Organization in New Institutional Economics”
with Sergio Lazzarini and Laura Poppo
Advances in Strategic Management, 2002, 19: 277-306
“Crafting Internal Hybrids: Complementarities, Common Change Initiatives, and the Team-based Corporation”
International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2002, 9(1): 79-95
“The Determinants of Incentive Intensity in Group-Based Rewards”
with C.R. Marshall
Academy of Management Journal, 2000, 43(2): 149-163
“Comment: Dynamically Engineering Bureaucracy”
with Jackson Nickerson
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1999, 15 (1): 47-55
“Testing Alternative Theories of the Firm: Transaction Cost, Knowledge-Based, and Measurement Explanations for Make-or-Buy Decisions in Information Services”
with Laura Poppo
Strategic Management Journal. 1998, 19: 853-877
“The Disaggregation of Corporations: Selective Intervention, High-Powered Incentives, and Molecular Units”
with William Hesterly
Organization Science, 1997, 8 (3): 209- 222
“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
“The Myth of a Monolithic Economics: Fundamental Assumptions and the Use of Economic Models in Policy and Strategy Research”
with William Hesterly
Organization Science, 4 (1993): 496-510
“Why Do Employers Only Reward Extreme Performance? Examining the Relationships Among Performance, Pay, and Turnover”
Administrative Science Quarterly, 37 (1992): 198-219
“Organizational Economics: An impending revolution in organization theory?”
with William Hesterly and Julia Liebeskind
Academy of Management Review, 1990, 15(3): 402-420
“Diseconomies of Scale in Employment Contracts”
with Eric Rasmusen
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1990, 6(1): 65-92
“Organizational Demography: The differential effects of age and tenure distributions on technical communication”
with Barbara Lawrence
Academy of Management Journal, 1989, 32(3): 353-376