"Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from billions of users. For companies that design and manufacture physical products, that type of fluid, data-rich information used to be a pipe dream. Now, with the rise of cheap and powerful sensors, computing power, and...

This dissertation studies inter-firm network formation and performance implication. Different from current network formation literature that focuses on the actor or dyad level, this dissertation examines network formation and its performance implication at the group level. Specifically, I...

Management scholars have established the importance of reputation for firm performance but the mechanisms through which reputation can be accumulated are still to be explored. While some researchers have proposed that reputation accumulates through causally ambiguous social processes and can be...

Nowadays, technology-intensive industries are permeated with partnerships between young/small ventures and large/established firms, where the ventures make technology commitments to the established firms. The partners involved in these partnerships are extremely asymmetric in a variety of...