An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories about Complementarity in Organizational Design

By Susan Athey, Scott Stem. 1997

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Counterfactual inference for consumer choice across many product categories (2019, methodology): “Athey and Stern (1998); see Berry et al. (2014) for a review). The only paper we are aware of that estimates interaction effects across many categories is Ruiz et al. (2020) which uses a similar approach to this paper, but focuses on estimating interactions rather than exploiting available informati”
SHOPPER: A Probabilistic Model of Consumer Choice with Substitutes and Complements (2017, background): “A small set of papers in economics and marketing (Athey and Stern, 1998) attempts to use individual choice data estimate parameters that describe interaction eﬀects (substitutes or complements) with a very small number of items; see Chintagunta and Nair (2011) and Berry et al. (2014) for recent…”
Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Human Resource Analytics, and Information Technology (2012, background): “As discussed above, both correlations and productivity differences can be used to test for complementarities (Athey and Stern 1998, Aral and Weill 2007, Brynjolfsson and Milgrom 2012).”
In Search of Complementarity in Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D and External Knowledge Acquisition (2006, background): “As Athey and Stern (1998) suggest, it would be more efficient to jointly estimate the system of innovation activities and the productivity equation.”
Knowledge Strategies, Firm Types, and Complementarity in Human-Resource Practices (2001, background): “As argued by Athey and Stern (1998), two types of approaches for measuring Edgeworth complementarities have been applied in the literature.”
Patterns of innovation in knowledge-intensive business services (2009, background): “In such a model, the distribution of interactions among choices is identified, and choices for the firms may be complementary, independent, or substitutes (Athey & Stern, 1998; Ichniowski, Shaw, & Prennushi, 1997; Mancinelli & Mazzanti, 2007; Mohnen & Röller, 2002).”
Big Data Investment, Skills, and Firm Value (2014, unknown): “…on organizational complementarities (Arora and Gambardella 1990; Huselid 1993; Milgrom and Roberts 1994; Ichniowski, Prennushi, and Shaw 1997; Athey and Stern 1998; Bresnahan, Brynjolfsson, and Hitt 2002; Bloom, Sadun, and Van Reenen 2012) as well as a literature on the relationship between…”
CSR and financial performance: complementarity between environmental, social and business behaviours (2014, methodology): “Several alternative empirical testing procedures are used in the literature to examine complementarity between business practices (see Athey and Stern, 1998 for an overview).”
Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching: A Nonparametric Analysis (2014, unknown): “One class of examples concerns complementarity between organizational form and technology (e.g., Athey and Stern (1998)).”
Human Resource Management and Productivity (2010, background): “Econometrically, testing for their existence poses some challenges, however, as pointed out most clearly by Athey and Stern (1998).”
Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance (2000, unknown): “Athey and Stern (1997) discuss issues in the empirical assessment of complementarity relationships.”
International Scientist Mobility and the Locus of Knowledge and Technology Transfer (2011, background): “The idea is to test for a positive correlation between the two practices conditional on a vector of covariates X (Athey and Stern, 1998; Cassiman and Veugelers, 2006).”