Tag: Peer effects
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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…
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Conversations and idea generation: Evidence from a field experiment
Research Policy, 48(9) (with Rembrand Koning) When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup bootcamp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality of an innovator (openness to experience, capturing creativity) and…
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Helpful behavior and the durability of collaborative ties
Organization Science (with Sampsa Samila and Alexander Oettl) Long-term collaborations are crucial in many creative domains. Although there is ample research on why people collaborate, our knowledge about what drives some collaborations to persist and others to decay is still emerging. In this paper, we extend theory on third-party effects and collaborative persistence to study…
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When does advice impact startup performance?
Strategic Management Journal, 40(3), 331-356 (with Aaron Chatterji, Solene Delecourt and Rembrand Koning) Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore whether the advice entrepreneurs receive about managing their employees influences their startup’s performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms whose founders received in-person advice from…
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Peers and network growth: Evidence from a natural experiment
Management Science, 61(10), 2536-2547. (with Surendrakumar Bagde) Much research suggests that social networks affect individual and organizational success. However, a strong assumption underlying this research is that network structure is not reducible to the individual attributes of social actors. In this article, we test this assumption by examining whether interacting with random peers causes exogenous growth…
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The mechanics of social capital and academic performance in an Indian college
American Sociological Review, 78(6), 1009-1032. (with Surendrakumar Bagde) In this article we examine how social capital affects the creation of human capital. Specifically, we study how college students’ peers affect academic performance. Building on existing research, we consider the different types of peers in the academic context and the various mechanisms through which peers affect performance.…
Sharique Hasan 