Volume 35 2026 Issue 2 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

Organizational Design With Portable Skills

Luca PicarielloWorkers learn from the tasks they perform, and in the process, they accumulate human capital that is potentially portable.

Quality Strategies in Frictional Search Models

Paolo MorgantiWe explore quality-based strategies in frictional online markets using a targeted search model with vertical differentiation and heterogeneous agents.

Price–Quantity Competition in a Duopoly Market With Price Similarities

Bertrand Crettez, Rabia Nessah, Raluca ParvulescuWe introduce a form of consumers' bounded rationality, price similarities, in a duopoly market with price–quantity competition.

Incentivizing Team Leaders: A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael VlassopoulosIn teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input.

Optimal Pricing of Public Franchises With Imperfectly Correlated Demand Shocks

Marco Buso, Cesare Dosi, Michele MorettoIn a dynamic adverse selection setting with private information about stochastic consumer preferences, we study the pricing of franchise rights when the awarding government body has to balance between revenue collection and consumer welfare.

Is Pollution Reduced or Redistributed? The Impact of Electric Vehicle Subsidies in China

Lisha Meng, Junji Xiao, Mengxin LiuThis paper examines the geographically heterogeneous environmental effects of electric vehicle (EV) subsidies in China and compares EV subsidies with alternative policies that price environmental externalities.

Reimbursing Consumers’ Switching Costs in Network and Nonnetwork Industries

Jiawei Chen, Michael SacksTo analyze how firms' policies to reimburse consumer switching costs affect prices, market structure, and welfare, we develop a dynamic duopoly model with network effects, switching costs, and switching cost reimbursement.

The Multi-BMBY Mechanism: Proportionality-Preserving and Strategyproof Ownership Restructuring in Private Companies

Gal Danino, Moran Koren, Omer MadmonFor privately held startups, restructuring ownership is challenging due to diverse and uncertain valuations among owners.

Innovation and Appropriation: Insights From the Chinese Patent Survey

Dong Cheng, Michael A. Klein, Fuat ŞenerUsing comprehensive microdata from the Chinese Patent Survey, we examine the appropriation strategies that firms use to capture value from their innovations and assess the motivations underpinning these strategies.

Are Immigrants More Innovative? Evidence From Entrepreneurs

Kyung Min Lee, Mee Jung Kim, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Zhen LiuWe evaluate the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs to innovation in the United States using linked survey-administrative data on 199,000 firms.
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