Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship

Completed and Ongoing Studies

·  Jeanne Liedtka, Marian Moore, Yi Zhang and Andrew King have conducted both online and lab studies with both undergraduate and MBA students looking at the efficacy of design thinking training in innovative outcomes.

·  Bobby Parmar and colleagues Francesca Gino and Julia Lee were selected as fellows at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. Their project consists of several online, lab and field experiments, which examine how facets of managerial communication about ethics effects on both unethical and ethical behavior in organizations.

·  Bobby Parmar and Megan Hess have completed a series of online experiments that show the conditions under which complex versus simple moral frames are useful in decision-making.

·  Bobby Parmar is collecting data for an ongoing study that examines the differential impact of priming people to think about moral excellence or moral compliance on cheating and helping behaviors in organizations.

·  Bobby Parmar, Andrew Wicks and Adrian Keevil have conducted a series of online studies examining the effect of a firm’s stakeholder or shareholder orientation on the level of self-determination experienced by employees.

Published and Forthcoming Articles

·  Bromiley, Philip and Jared D. Harris (2014). “A Comparison of Alternative Measures of Organizational Aspirations,” Strategic Management Journal, 35(3):338-357.

·  Harris, Jared D., Scott G. Johnson, and David Souder (2013). “Model Theoretic Knowledge Accumulation: The Case of Agency Theory and Incentive Alignment,” Academy of Management Review, 38(3): 442-454.

·  Kraft T., F. Erhun, R. Carlson, D Rafinejad (2013).“Replacement Decisions for Potentially Hazardous Substances.” Production and Operations Management (POM). This is for a special issue on new product development, innovation and sustainability, 22(4): 958–975.

·  Parmar, B. (2014). “From Intrapsychic Moral Awareness to the Role Of Social Disruptions, Labeling and Action in The Emergence Of Moral Issues,” Organization Studies.

·  De Colle, S., Henriques, A. and Sarasvathy, S. D. “The paradox of CSR standards,” Journal of Business Ethics. Published online, 2013.

·  Sarasvathy, S.D., Kumar, K., York, J. and Bhagavatula, S. (2014). “An Effectual Approach to International Entrepreneurship: Overlaps, Challenges and Provocative Possibilities,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (Special Issue on high potential concepts, phenomena and theories in international entrepreneurship research). Published online, 2013.

·  Harmeling, S. and Sarasvathy, S. D. (2013). “When contingency is a resource: Education entrepreneurs in the Balkans, the Bronx and beyond,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(4): 713-744.

·  Venkataraman, S., Sarasvathy, S. D., Dew, N. and Forster, W. (2013). “Of narratives and artifacts” Academy of Management Review, 38(1): 163-166.

·  Sarasvathy, S. D., Menon, A. R. and Kuechle, G. (2013). “Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: Serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio,” Small Business Economics, 40(2): 417-434.

·  Sarasvathy, S. D. (2013). “Mazes without Minotaurs: Herbert Simon and the Sciences of the Artificial,” European Management Journal, 31: 82– 87.

·  Andy Wicks and Jeff Harrison (2013). “Stakeholder Theory, Value and Firm Performance,” Business Ethics Quarterly 23(1): 97- 124.

·  Andy Wicks (forthcoming). “Stakeholder Theory and Spirituality in the Workplace: A Topic Whose Time Has Come,” Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion.

·  Kluver, Jesse and Andrew Wicks (forthcoming). “Decoration, Self-Transcendence and Spiritual Expression: Stakeholder Cooperation and the Creation of Join Value in the Workplace,” Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion – Special Issue on Stakeholder Theory and the Workplace.

·  Wicks, Andrew and Adrian Keevil (forthcoming). "When Worlds Collide: Medicine, Business, the Affordable Care Act and the Future of Health Care in the US,” Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

Book chapters

·  Wicks, Andrew C., Jared D. Harris and Brian Moriarty (forthcoming). “Public Trust in Business: What’s the Problem and Why Does it Matter?” in J. Harris, A. Wicks and B. Moriarty (Eds.), Public Trust in Business, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York.

·  Jared Harris, Adrian Keevil and Andy Wicks (forthcoming 2013). “Researching the Public’s Trust in Business”, Advances in Trust Research. A. Zaheer and R. Bachmann, ed’s. Edward Elgar.

·  Jared Harris, Adrian A. C. Keevil and Andrew C. Wicks (2013) “Public Trust in the Institution of Business,” in R. Bachmann and A. Zaheer (Eds.), Advances in Trust Research, 204-223. Edward Elgar: Northampton, Massachusetts.

·  Pirson, M., K. Martin, and B. Parmar (forthcoming). “Public Trust in Business and its Determinants.” In The Cambridge Volume on Public Trust in Business.

·  Sarasvathy, S. D, (forthcoming). “The Whole Deal: Models, Metaphors and Mechanisms in Entrepreneurial Cognition,” Handbook of Entrepreneurial Cognition, edited by Robert Mitchell and Ronald Mitchell.

·  Sarasvathy, S. D., Forster, W. and Ramesh, A. (2013). “The Ordinary Entrepreneur.” The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship, edited by Friederike Welter and Ted Baker and published by Routledge.

·  Sarasvathy, S. D. (2013). “Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift From Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency,” Academy of Management Review, 26(2): 243-288. Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Opportunities, edited by Dean Shepherd and Denis Gregoire, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

·  Sarasvathy, S. D., Forster, W. and Ramesh, A. (2013). “The Ordinary Entrepreneur,” The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship, edited by Friederike Welter and Ted Baker and published by Routledge.

Books

·  Harris, Jared D., Andrew C. Wicks, and Brian Moriarty (Eds.), (forthcoming 2014). Public Trust in Business, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York.

·  Sarasvathy, S. D., Venkataraman, S., and Dew, N. (forthcoming 2014). Made, as well as found: Researching entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial. Columbia University Press.