Income or Education? Community-level Antecedents of Firms’ Category-spanning Activities

A new study in the Strategic Management Journal written by Heewon Chae helps shed light on how the COVID-19 crisis influences retail firms’ business portfolio and product offerings. In this study, Chae investigated how residents’ income and education levels of … Continue reading Income or Education? Community-level Antecedents of Firms’ Category-spanning Activities

Natural Disasters are Increasing: New Research Examines Why Some Firms Prepare and Others Don’t

Originally published at SMS Journals Press Releases Despite the increasing frequency and severity of floods, storms, wildfires and other natural hazards, some firms in disaster-prone areas prepare while others do not. That issue was examined in a new study by … Continue reading Natural Disasters are Increasing: New Research Examines Why Some Firms Prepare and Others Don’t

Revisiting Temporary Colocation and Collaborative Discovery in an Age of Virtual Conferences

By Sen Chai and Richard Freeman In a world of ever-expanding knowledge where research has become increasingly complex, scientific funding ever so uncertain, and where frontier-pushing research requires labor to be divided among researchers, our work in the Strategic Management … Continue reading Revisiting Temporary Colocation and Collaborative Discovery in an Age of Virtual Conferences