This study seeks to answer the following question: What are the organizational attributes that influence organizational responses to institutional complexity? Building on core ideas of organizational imprinting, I argue that organizational response is influenced by the imprint from the dominant...

This paper examines whether politically connected firms engage more or less in corporate philanthropy than politically unconnected firms. We argue that political connections have countervailing effects on corporate philanthropy and that the study of publically traded firms (“public firms”)...

Innovation activities create substantial firm value, but they are difficult to manage owing to agency risk which is commonly thought to result in shirking, hence underinvestment in innovation. However, agency risk can also create inefficient allocation of resources among innovation activities,...