Colleges and universities in the United States increasingly are turning to merit aid offers as a competitive tool to attract better students. Although the total amount of merit aid offered has increased recently, universities vary dramatically in the amount they use to attract top candidates....

A firm's strategic emphasis, i.e., its relative focus on value appropriation vs. value creation, provides insights on how the firm expects to position itself for future growth. In addition to organizing activities in-house, firms also rely on external modes of governance such as alliances, joint...

This web appendix has three main purposes. First, we provide a more or less 'stand-alone' technical appendix that describes the estimation algorithm for the proposed attribute model using Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques (sections A1 and A2). The reversible jump (RJ) algorithm (Green, 1995)...

Reports of the influence of corporate lobbying suggest that firms (e.g., automotive companies) try to persuade regulators (the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – NHTSA) not to order recalls of products (vehicles) with potentially harmful or fatal defects (e.g., rapid...

The selection of novel ideas is vital to the development of truly innovative products. Firms often turn to idea crowdsourcing challenges, in which both ideators and the seeker firms participate in the idea selection process. Yet prior research cautions that ideators and seeker firms may not...

Some contemporary new product introductions feature attribute auto-dynamics — the property that enables a product to adapt its attributes automatically in response to changing customer, product-system, or environmental (CSE) conditions. In addition to explicating auto-dynamics, the authors...

Triggered by a territorial dispute, as well as historical animosity, a nationwide civilian boycott of Japanese products took place in China in summer of 2012. Using detailed data on vehicle sales in four major Chinese cities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Nanjing), this study investigates the...

As firms use advertising to gain product market advantages and increase their valuation in financial markets, disclosing their advertising spending is influential—whether it erodes organizational competitive advantages in product markets or signals quality in financial markets. The authors...

To understand the impact of competition on organizational service reliability decisions, this study investigates if firms in the airline industry consider competitors' actions when making their service reliability decisions. Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics on flight...