Lamar Pierce

 

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Research

Please find research descriptions and papers below.  Those papers not linked are still in preliminary stages of development or already published.

Interpersonal Corruption and Black Market Strategy

This research stream focuses on identifying the mechanisms and effects of effort and corruption in organizations, and how illegality can serve as a viable firm strategy.  This work identifies the roles that individual incentives and interpersonal relationships can play in an employee's decision to engage in illicit behavior.

Papers

“Ethical Spillovers in Firms: Evidence from Vehicle Emissions Testing” (2008) Management Science 54 (11): 1891-1903. (with Jason Snyder)

“Dishonesty in the Name of Equity.” (2009) Forthcoming at Psychological Science. (with Francesca Gino)

“The Abundance Effect: Unethical Behavior in the Presence of Wealth” (with Francesca Gino) Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 109 (2): 142-155

“Robin Hood under the Hood: Wealth-Based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help” (with Francesca Gino) Forthcoming at Organization Science 

Ethical Fit, Diversity, and Attrition: Evidence from the Vehicle Emissions Testing Market" (with Jason Snyder) Under Review

“Moving Beyond Agency Theory: Incorporating Psychology into an Integrated Framework of Compensation Strategy.” (with Francesca Gino and Ian Larkin).  Under review.

“Fixing Cars or Fixing the Test? Using Discontinuous Regulations to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Emissions Testing Programs” (with Jason Snyder) in preparation

Compensation and Peer Effects in Competing Sales Teams (with Tat Chan and Jia Li) Under review

Information Problems in Lease Pricing

This research stream, initiated in my dissertation, represents an effort to better elucidate the consequences of manufacturers who vertically integrate into financing their own products.  Such strategies produce significant effects for manufacturer profitability, independent finance institutions, consumers, and other suppliers and complementors.

Papers

Organizational Structure and the Limits of Knowledge Exploitation: Evidence from Consumer Automobile LeasingRevise and Resubmit (4th round) at Management Science

“Big Losses in Ecosystem Niches: How Core Firm Decisions Drive Complementary Product Shakeout” (2009) Strategic Management Journal 30 (3): 323-347.

“Manufacturer Lease Pricing and Adverse Selection” Under revision 

Other Work

These papers/projects include older work and potential future research streams.

Dynamic Capabilities

"Dynamic Capabilities, Competence, and the Behavioral Theory of the Firm." (with Chris Boerner and David Teece) in Mie Augier and James G. March (eds.)  The Economics of Change, Choice and Structure: Essays in the Memory of Richard M. Cyert. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ldt., 2002.

"The Evolutionary Theory in Dynamic Capabilities" (with David J. Teece)

Other Research

"Programmatic Risk-Taking by American Opera Companies" Journal of Cultural Economics.  24 (1). Feb. 2000. p. 45-63.