Professors Vaast and Pinsonneault awarded 2021 SSHRC Insight Grant
Emmanuelle Vaast, Professor of Information Systems and Alain Pinsonneault, Professor of Information Systems, awarded 2021 SSHRC Insight Grant
Professor Holmgren awarded 2021 SSHRC Insight Grant
Lindsay Holmgren, Associate Professor of Strategy & Organization, awarded 2021 SSHRC Insight Grant
Charging an Electric Vehicle-Sharing Fleet
Electric vehicle (EV) sharing programs rely on publicly available charging infrastructure. Yet often there simply isn’t enough infrastructure to go around, creating a major barrier to success. In 2016, the vehicle sharing company Car2Go sold off its fleet of EVs in San Diego largely because the city’s charging infrastructure couldn’t keep pace with demand. Or so it seemed. With too many vehicles being dropped off at a few charging points in high-use areas, delays grew.
Robert Nason, Associate Professor of Strategy & Organization, awarded William Dawson Scholar
Professor Robert Nason’s research program centers on entrepreneurship and inequality. While flashy startups dominate headlines, the reality is that most of the rich are entrepreneurs and most entrepreneurs are poor.
Does Private Country-by-Country Reporting Deter Tax Avoidance and Income Shifting? Evidence from BEPS Action Item 13
Author: Preetika Joshi Publication: Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 58, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 333-381. Abstract:
From ideal workers to ideal work for all: A 50-year review integrating careers and work-family research with a future research agenda
Authors: E.E. Kossek, M. Perrigino and Alyson Gounden Rock
Publication: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Forthcoming. Abstract:
Prof. Lisa Cohen co-edits special virtual issue of Administrative Science Quarterly
Congratulations to Lisa Cohen, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, for co-editing the special virtual issue of Administrative Science Quarterly in honor of Women’s History Month!
Prof. Ganju's paper selected as finalist for NIHCM Research Award
Congratulations to Kartik K. Ganju, Assistant Professor in Information Systems, whose paper has been selected as a finalist for NIHCM Foundation’s 27th Annual Research Award.
Professor Ganju’s Management Science paper “The Role of Decision Support Systems in Attenuating Racial Biases in Healthcare Delivery” with co-authors Hilal Atasoy Jeffery McCullough, and Brad Greenwood was selected by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM) as one of five finalists for NIHCM Foundation’s 27th Annual Research Award from a competitive pool of nearly 100 entries.
“The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to transforming health care through evidence and collaboration (www.nihcm.org).”
“Management Science is a scholarly journal that publishes scientific research on the practice of management. Within our scope are all aspects of management related to strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, information technology, and organizations as well as all functional areas of business, such as accounting, finance, marketing, and operations.”
2020 SSHRC Insight Grants awarded
Congratulations to the Desautels professors who received 2020 SSHRC Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants. SSHRC Insight Grants Professor Laurent Barras (with Professor David Schumacher) Professor Sebastien Betermier Professor
Scouting and Schmoozing: A Gender Difference in Networking During Job Search
Authors: Elena Obukhova and A.M. Kleinbaum Publication: Academy of Management Discoveries, Forthcoming Abstract:
A Seat at the Table and a Room of Their Own: Interconnected processes of social media use at the intersection of gender and occupation
Author: Emmanuelle Vaast Publication: Organization Studies, Forthcoming Abstract:
Inventory in Times of War
Authors: Andres F. Jola-Sanchez and Juan Camilo Serpa Publication: Management Science, 67(10):6457-6479 Abstract:
We study how armed conflicts affect inventory across firms’ production facilities. We track 38,916 production facilities—including plantations, livestock farms, and factories—in war-torn Colombian regions; we also collect the data of 5,138 attacks performed by the two rebel groups involved in Colombia’s civil war. To obtain exogenous variation in the conflict intensity, we use a difference-in-differences model that hinges on the peace process between the government and one of the guerrilla groups. We find that when the conflict intensity increases by one order of magnitude, inventory decreases by up to 10.38%. Firms, however, barely reduce finished inventory during war; they mainly reduce raw and work-in-process inventory. To offset this inventory reduction, firms increase their cash holdings—that is, they shift their working capital from physical inventory to liquid assets. The location of the facility moderates the effect of war: when a facility is close to a distribution center—hence, inventory travels short distances—the firm responds to violence by aggressively reducing inventory; when a facility is far from a distribution center, the firm reacts less aggressively to war.
Desautels professors awarded IVADO research funding
Four Desautels professors have been awarded research grants by the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), a Montreal-based scientific and economic data science hub. The grants will fund three two-year research projects led by Desautels professors as part of IVADO’s Fundamental Research Funding Program.
Professor Hewlin and colleagues awarded over $2m in SSHRC funding
Congratulations to Professor Patricia Faison Hewlin and her colleagues across 25 academic institutions who have been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant for the establishment of the "Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Network (IIE-Net)".
The Role of Decision Support Systems in Attenuating Racial Biases in Healthcare Delivery
Authors: Kartik K. Ganju, Hilal Atasoy, Brad Greenwood and Jeff McCullough
Publication: Management Science, Volume 66, Issue 11, November 2020, Pages 5171-5181.
Abstract:
Although significant research has examined how technology can intensify racial and other outgroup biases, limited work has investigated the role information systems can play in abating them. Racial biases are particularly worrisome in healthcare, where underrepresented minorities suffer disparities in access to care, quality of care, and clinical outcomes. In this paper, we examine the role clinical decision support systems (CDSS) play in attenuating systematic biases among black patients, relative to white patients, in rates of amputation and revascularization stemming from diabetes mellitus. Using a panel of inpatient data and a difference-in-difference approach, results suggest that CDSS adoption significantly shrinks disparities in amputation rates across white and black patients—with no evidence that this change is simply delaying eventual amputations. Results suggest that this effect is driven by changes in treatment care protocols that match patients to appropriate specialists, rather than altering within physician decision making. These findings highlight the role information systems and digitized patient care can play in promoting unbiased decision making by structuring and standardizing care procedures.
