Month: March 2019

• March 3, 2019

  Designing social networks: Joint tasks and the formation and endurance of network ties

  Journal of Organization Design, (9)4, 2020 (with Rembrand Koning) Can managers influence the formation of organizational networks? In this article, we evaluate the effect of joint tasks on the creation of network ties with data from a novel field experiment with 112 aspiring entrepreneurs. During the study, we randomized individuals to a set of 15…
• March 3, 2019

  Experimentation and startup performance: Evidence from A/B testing

  Management Science (with Rembrand Koning and Aaron Chatterji) Recent scholarship argues that experimentation should be the organizing principle for entrepreneurial strategy. Experimentation leads to organizational learning, which drives improvements in firm performance. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of testing business ideas.…
• March 3, 2019

  Prior social ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team performance’

  Strategic Management Journal 40(9) (with Rembrand Koning) We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent startup team’s performance. We find that teams whose members lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp experience peer effects that influence the quality of their product prototypes. A…