Articles under review/revision:

• Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: Disentangling the Role of State Borders, Metropolitan Boundaries and Distance (with Matt Marx and Lee Fleming, Jan 2010).

• Recruiting for Ideas: A Difference-in-Differences Approach for Estimating the
  Effect of Mobility on Access to an Inventor's Prior Knowledge (with Ajay Agrawal, Aug 2009).

• The World is Not Small for Everyone: Inequity in Searching for Information in Organizations (with Morten Hansen and Joel Podolny, Aug 2009).
  [To read a summary of this paper appearing in Sloan Management Review (Spring 2008), click here]

Journal articles:

• Lone Inventors as Sources of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality? (with Lee Fleming), Management Science, 56(1), January 2010, pp. 41-56.

• Distributed R&D, Cross-Regional Knowledge Integration and Quality of Innovative Output, Research Policy, 37(1), 2008, pp. 77-96.
  [This paper  won the Best Paper Award at DRUID Summer Conference 2006 and the Haynes Best Paper Prize at the Academy of International Business 2005 annual meetings.]

• Asymmetry of Knowledge Spillovers between MNCs and Host Country Firms, Journal of International Business Studies, 38(5), 2007, pp. 764-786.


[This is a completely rewritten version of an earlier paper titled "Multinational Firms and Knowledge Diffusion: Evidence using Patent Citation Data" which was awarded the Newman award at Academy of Management 2004 meetings. This paper is based on the second chapter of my PhD dissertation]

• Science, Social Networks and Spillovers (with Olav Sorenson), Industry and Innovation, 14(2), May 2007, pp. 219-238.

• Collaborative Networks as Determinants of Knowledge Diffusion Patterns Management Science, 51(5), May 2005, pp. 756-770.
  [Click here for the accompanying online technical appendix. This paper is based on the third chapter of my PhD dissertation.]
  

• Agency Costs in a Supply Chain with Demand Uncertainty and Price Competition (with V.G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman). Management Science 51(1), Jan 2005, pp. 120-132..


[Click here for online supplement with detailed proofs not in the paper.]

• The Effect of Repeated Interaction on Contract Choice: Evidence from Offshore Drilling (with Ken Corts). Journal Of Law, Economics & Organization 20(1), Spring 2004.

• Technological Dynamism in Asia (with Ishtiaq P. Mahmood). Research Policy  32(6), June 2003.
  [This paper is based on the fourth chapter of my PhD dissertation.]

Best Paper Proceedings in Conferences:

• Multinational Firms and Knowledge Diffusion: Evidence using Patent Citation Data. In D.H. Nagao (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of 2004 Meeting of the Academy of Management. [A completely re-written version of this paper, now titled "Asymmetry of Knowledge Spillovers between MNCs and Host Country Firms", is forthcoming in Journal of International Business Studies]

PhD Dissertation:

• Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion in the Global Economy (April 2004)
  [This dissertation was awarded the Best Dissertation Award by the International Management division of the Academy of Management. In addition, it was also a finalist for the Best Dissertation Awards for both the Technology and Innovation Management  division and the Business Policy and Strategy division. The three main chapters of the dissertation now exist as more recent and refined papers available through the links earlier on this page. If you are interested in my dissertation work, I therefore recommend downloading these individual papers rather than the original dissertation.]