Acquirers who buy small technology based firms for their technological capabilities often discover that post merger integration can destroy the very innovative capabilities that made the acquired organization attractive in the first place. Viewing structural integration as a mechanism to achieve...

The management of technology acquisitions - acquisitions of small technology based firms by large established firms - poses a dilemma in terms of how to organize for innovation. Acquirers must integrate acquired firms in order to exploit their capabilities and technologies in a coordinated...

In conducting due diligence during corporate acquisitions, acquirers obtain new and usually negative information regarding targets' values. Because such information is noisy, acquirers must balance the risk of withdrawing from a value-enhancing acquisition against the risk of persisting with a...

The promise of collaboration between humans and algorithms in producing good decisions is stimulating much experimentation. Drawing on research in organization design can help us to approach this experimentation systematically. I propose typologies for considering different forms of division of...

Communication gaps often lead to accidents, delays, missed opportunities, waste, and conflict in organizations. However, on occasion, they can also lead to beneficial outcomes, at least for one of the parties involved. Prior scholarship on productive misunderstandings and on strategic ambiguity...

We introduce the concept of a “code”- a fuzzy mapping between two distinct sets of cognitive constructs – as a fundamental construct to study culture. The concept of a code, and the distinction between using a code vs. expectations about the code others use, can be applied to study many...

Design thinking remains mired in controversy. Its proponents claim that it enhances not just confidence but also creativity, but its opponents question whether it does anything beyond building unfounded confidence. In order to bring rigorous evidence to this debate, we designed a randomized...