The advance in AI-powered chatbot technologies and their rapid deployment in the service industry have attracted enormous interest from both researchers and practitioners in recent years. However, we still know little about ...

Using the wealth creation measure developed by Bessembinder (2018), we estimate stock market wealth creation around the world and show the importance of national culture in explaining wealth creation. The 88 stock markets ...

While diverse perspectives benefit collaborations in generating creative outcomes, people generally tend to favor and connect based on similarities. To unpack this seeming dilemma, this research examines whether, how, and ...

Interaction between individuals is especially crucial for innovation as it enables the exchange and recombination of knowledge necessary to create new or improve existing technologies, processes, or products. In my ...

Inventors often translate their ideas into commercially viable new products through a sequential process called innovation value chain. First, I revisit the innovation value chain and study various innovation platforms, ...

In the context of medical crowdfunding, this dissertation investigates how individual reactions are diversified as they encounter certain events online. Specifically, this dissertation focuses on the two types of events: ...

Price and product quality are among the most important factors that influence consumers’ choices. This dissertation comprises two essays that examine the price and quality trade-off among consumers in two distinct settings. ...

This dissertation consists of three essays on variable debt obligations. In the first essay, I develop a novel dataset to examine the impact of pension group annuity purchases on capital structure and corporate policies. ...

Increasing access to data and advanced statistical methods can help auditors generate independent expectations of estimates, but expectations are not useful unless auditors rely on them. However, advanced methods are likely ...

Evolving views of followers and power in today’s increasingly complex and turbulent business environments provides a backdrop for the emergence of scholarly and industry intrigue in the role and behavior of followers. ...