Stockholm School of Economics

Design-logic alignment in digital transformation: A qualitative meta-analysis of Kodak

ABSTRACT Why does an incumbent like Kodak, despite investing early in digital technology, still fail to create and capture value? We argue that Kodak’s fate exemplifies a canonical paradox of digital transformation (DT) because its organisational identity, strategy, and technolog...

The Recursive Relationship Between Technology and Regulations: Managing Landscape Frictions in the Financial Services Industry

Firms increasingly rely on information technology (IT) to meet regulatory demands, yet information systems research typically examines organizational responses to individual regulations. This leaves unclear how firms adapt when multiple regulations with fragmented purposes simult...

Theorizing Cross‐Boundary Strategizing as Situated in Multilayered Supply Chains: A Strategy‐as‐Practice Approach to Supply Chain Management

ABSTRACT Supply chain strategy is increasingly recognized as a multilayered phenomenon, with firms strategizing not only within their own boundaries but across supply chain tiers, jurisdictions, and wider regulatory and ecological systems. Yet most existing supply chain managemen...

Beyond regulation: adaptive responses of nonregulated SMEs to mandatory CSR reporting

Purpose This study aims to examine whether mandatory sustainability/corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure generates spillover effects beyond firms directly subject to regulation. While prior research focuses mainly on direct compliance effects, little is known about wh...

Comprehension and cooperation in the Public Goods Game

Pre-registration for Study 1 of a research project on measurement of prosocial behaviour in public goods games. This record contains the pre-analysis plan and experimental design document, deposited prior to data collection. The pre-analysis plan (PAP) is the primary pre-registra...

Who is concerned about climate change when forests are burning? Evidence from Swedish forest fires

I examine how individuals update their environmental attitudes in response to climate events using the extensive Swedish forest fires in 2018. Political scientists have suggested that motivated reasoning contributes to divergence in environmental attitudes over time. It remains e...

Collusion through debt and managers

Abstract We investigate the anticompetitive effects of debt financing and managerial incentives in the presence of managers incurring personal bankruptcy costs. We characterize the strategic value for firms' shareholders of resorting to debt and managerial incentives as complemen...

Friends with drugs: The role of social networks in the opioid epidemic

The current opioid epidemic is the worst drug epidemic the U.S. has ever faced. We examine the role of social connections in its spatial spread. Having many friendship links to counties with high opioid exposure positively correlates with overdose death rates. To address identifi...

Teaching to learn and learning to teach: using machine training to develop artificial intelligence partners in new product development

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping how innovation is developed, and new product development (NPD) is an important domain at the centre of this shift, given its data-rich, high-uncertainty contexts. In this paper, we focus on the design and training of AI systems...