Research Papers under Review or Revision:

• The Geographic Scope of Knowledge Spillovers: Spatial Proximity, Political Borders and Non-Compete Enforcement Policy (with Matt Marx).

• Regional Disadvantage? Non-Compete Agreements and Brain Drain (with Matt Marx and Lee Fleming).

Research Publications: [Click here for citation impact statistics]

• Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires (with Ajay Agrawal), Management Science 57(1), January 2011, pp. 129-150.

• The World is Not Small for Everyone: Inequity in Searching for Information in Organizations (with Morten Hansen and Joel Podolny), Management Science 56(9), September 2010, pp. 1415-1438.
  [To read a feature on this paper as appearing in Sloan Management Review (Spring 2008), click here]

• 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), February 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), September 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 a feature on this paper as an “Emerging Research Front paper in the field of Economics & Business” by Thompson Reuter's ScienceWatch. For an accompanying online technical appendix for this paper, which is based on the third chapter of my PhD dissertation, click here.]
  

• 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 (Business Economics, Harvard Business School):

• 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.]