Abstract: In this seminar, I present a working paper that examines how organizations respond to external scrutiny and reputational challenges in the public sphere. The study explores how firms translate social attention and legitimacy pressure into changes at the leadership level, and how these

Abstract: Research on the governance of new ventures has traditionally focused on mitigating incentive misalignment between founders and investors through boards’ incentive design, monitoring, and control. In this paper, we identify a distinct governance problem: managing cognitive misalignment —

We investigate the self-serving attributions of negative firm performance (negative earnings surprise) to country risk by the CEOs of cross-listed companies. The SEC’s risk disclosure requirement, introduced to serve the host country investors’ information demand, inadvertently provided an institutional arbitrage opportunity for cross-listed company CEOs to present the country risk as an excuse for negative earnings surprises.

 Abstract: The platform literature has shown conflicting findings regarding how a platform owner's entry into its complementors' market affects complementors’ innovation. To reconcile these mixed findings, we present a dynamic perspective on platform evolution within and across technology