Hybrid organizations that combine multiple, existing organizational forms are frequently proposed as a source of organizational innovation, yet little is known about the origins of such organizations. We propose that individual founders of hybrid organizations acquire imprints from past exposure...

This paper examines the relationship between exogenous demand shocks and market structure in India’s influenza vaccine markets. Using a novel dataset of detailed purchasing information for vaccines in the country, and exploiting the occurrence of the 2009-10 global H1N1 pandemic as an...

The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is a school voucher initiative that offers publicly- funded scholarships to students from economically-disadvantaged families to attend a participating private school of their choice. While school choice theory suggests that market- based reforms such as...

We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element — the corporate foundation — constrains the influence of individual senior managers...

Research suggests that organizational viability may depend on the extent to which a sector is viewed as socio-politically legitimate. However, for what kind of organizations does the loss of sector legitimacy most affect financial sustainability? Econometric analyses using the Indian...

Global shocks bring unanticipated changes in the business environment of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) and rival domestic firms. We examine whether there is a difference between how MNEs and domestic firms react in heterogeneous local or subnational markets to a global demand shock....

This paper examines the relationship between exogenous demand shock and market structure in India’s influenza vaccine markets. Using a novel dataset of detailed purchasing information for vaccines in India, and exploiting the 2009-10 global H1N1 pandemic as an exogenous demand shock, we...

When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits' prior inventions? Our estimates suggest they do, quite significantly in fact, by approximately 202%...