Overview

My work focuses on two tightly related topics. I explore why purpose or mission driven firms might be significantly more productive and creative than their more conventional rivals, focusing particularly on the role of trust in building path dependent relational contracts. And I ask whether and how these kinds of firms might be able to help catalyze the systemic transformation of capitalism in ways that could solve the three big problems of our time: climate change and environmental degradation; inequality and exclusion, and political dysfunction. In both cases my work builds on a long standing interest in understanding the drivers of innovation in firms -- and in larger social and political systems.