We examine the relationship between data analytics capabilities and innovation using detailed firm-level data. To measure innovation, we first utilize a survey to capture two types of firm practices, process improvement and new technology development for 331 firms. We then use patent data to...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially reduce the complexities and costs in drug discovery. Using a resource-based view, we conceptualize an AI innovation capability that gauges a firm's ability to develop, manage and utilize AI resources for innovation. Using patents and job...

We examine how various digital communication channels jointly offer critical signals of the quality of a firm as an employer, build up its online employer brand, and affect firm value. Using large-scale multiyear datasets of online job reviews, social media posts and firm financial performance,...

Despite the rapid adoption of and increased spending on social media in the recent years, there is little existing research on the economic value of corporate social media investment or the factors that affect this value. In this study, we first provide empirical evidence using a large sample of...

This study examines how characteristics of a firm’s labor-flow network affect firm productivity. Using employee job histories, we construct inter-firm labor-flow networks for both IT-labor and non-IT labor and analyze how a firm’s network structure for the two types of labor affects firm...