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• Article | American Economic Review: Insights

  Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

  David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano and Pian Shu

  Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure intensifies competitive pressure, reducing sales, profitability, and R&D expenditure at U.S. firms. Accounting for confounding sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This adverse effect is larger among initially less profitable and less capital-intensive firms.

  Keywords: Patents; Production; Trade; Competition; Innovation and Invention; United States;

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  Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano, and Pian Shu. "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents." American Economic Review: Insights 2, no. 3 (September 2020): 357–374.  View Details

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• Article | Harvard Business Review Digital Articles | May 6, 2020

  We Shouldn't Wait for a Breakthrough in the Covid-19 Pandemic

  Gary P. Pisano

  The ultimate solutions to the Covid-19 crisis may be big breakthroughs in building massive test and trace capacity and developing vaccines and drug remedies. But in the meantime, we should not ignore the potential cumulative impact of the many small things we already know how to do or might try that together could make a big dent in the current crisis. Big problems typically get tackled through a series of small solutions, each of which on its own may not seem particularly important but that together can have a huge impact. Creating and implementing a “small steps” strategy, however, will require strong leadership.

  Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Strategy; Leadership;

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  Pisano, Gary P. "We Shouldn't Wait for a Breakthrough in the Covid-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 6, 2020).  View Details

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• Article | Organizational Psychology Review | May 2020

  Into the Fray: Adaptive Approaches to Studying Novel Teamwork Forms

  Michaela Kerrissey, Patricia Satterstrom and Amy C. Edmondson

  Novel forms of teamwork—created by rapid change and growing diversity among collaborators—are increasingly common, and they present substantial methodological challenges for research. We highlight two aspects of new team forms that challenge conventional methods. Factors pertaining to change (e.g., in membership) create entitativity challenges such as whom to count as team members, while factors pertaining to difference (e.g., in expertise) create concordance challenges such as how to interpret disagreement in groups. We review research methods that are well suited to each of these specific challenges. We identify the particular challenges of studying teams that exhibit high difference and change simultaneously and call for adaptive methods that enable insight into how they work. Clarity about the dimensions of deviation from ideal team forms, along with shared terminology, will help researchers make and discuss tough methodological choices and assist reviewers in evaluating them.

  Keywords: team member fluidity; temporary teams; knowledge diversity; entitativity; concordance; methods; Groups and Teams; Problems and Challenges; Research;

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  Kerrissey, Michaela, Patricia Satterstrom, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Into the Fray: Adaptive Approaches to Studying Novel Teamwork Forms." Special Issue on The Challenges of Working with "Real" Teams. Organizational Psychology Review 10, no. 2 (May 2020): 62–86.  View Details

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