[1] Lost in automation: the impact of technology-supported training on the performance of small entrepreneurs in underserved regions
Co-authored with: Leandro Nardi, Sandro Cabral and Sergio Lazzarini
Stage: R&R at Management Science.
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We deploy a field experiment to examine the impact of diverse modes of delivering digital business training programs, i.e., how the degree of automation within the learning platform influences the knowledge acquisition and performance outcomes of small entrepreneurs in underserved regions.
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Co-authored with: Sandro Cabral and Sergio Lazzarini
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Stage: Under review at Strategic Management Journal.
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We analyze how stakeholder ownership affects firms' entry-and-exit decisions under institutional changes. Using staggered difference-in-differences models, we leverage the rollout of high-speed internet infrastructure in Brazilian municipalities to investigate how private and state-owned banks, and credit cooperatives behave in terms of entry/exit in vulnerable markets during periods of accelerated digitization.
[3] Daring to differ: information provision and middle-status conformity in cultural markets
Co-authored with: Matthew Yeaton and Marieke Huysentruyt
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Stage: Under review at Administrative Science Quarterly.
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We examine how information provision reshapes conformity pressures across the status hierarchy. Drawing on a natural experiment in Brazil’s cultural funding sector that digitized project information and improved comparability, we analyze how this shock affected differentiation strategies and funding outcomes for high- and middle-status producers.
Co-authored with: Carlos Inoue and Sandro Cabral
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Stage: data analysis.
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We examine how firms’ engagement in international trade affects workplace safety conditions and under which organizational contexts workers enjoy superior value appropriation even in the face of productivity pressures. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences approach, we analyze productive plants’ reactions to the opening of the Chinese market to Brazilian beef.
