Innovation is sometimes perceived as a linear and sequential process, and at other times as multidimensional. Based on the common thread of 'awareness' that grounds many theories on innovation, we analyze the idea that a flexible informational awareness accounts for both perceptions within the...

The importance of social identities (e.g. race, gender, political ideology) in economic interactions is well established, but little is known about how people strategically manipulate the visibility or salience of their multiple identity types. This paper experimentally explores a common type of...