Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform

The authors thank members of supporting organizations, and particularly Maria Costa De Sousa, Hugh Courtney, Mavez Dabas, Sylvain Demortier, Anthony Donaldson, Raj Echambadi, Koreen Geisler-Wagner, Austen Keene, Afan Khan, Atif Khan, Abhinav Kharbanda, Dyan Khor, Raghavi Kirouchenaradjou, Sreerag Sreenath Mandakathil, Patrick McGrath, Tucker Marion, Marc Meyer, Robert Hughes, Michael Orr, Olga Ozhereleva, Kaushik Padmanabhan, Edwige Poinssot, Fernando Suarez, Prathamesh Kisan Tajane, Nikin Tharan, Emery Trahan, Maureen Underhill, Robert Whelan, and Katherine Wilhoit. For helpful comments, they thank Victor Bennett, Roberto Fernandez, Sharique Hasan, Olga Shurchkov, and seminar participants at Duke University, Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID) Conference, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Academy of Management. They also acknowledge generous financial support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Boudreau also thanks Charlotte, Donna, Elizabeth, Jackson, Rochelle, and Ruth Ann for motivating this study. The views expressed here are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of supporting institutions, funders, or supporters involved with this study. All errors are the authors’.