Dormancy as a Strategic Response to Detrimental Public Policy

This article is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation that was submitted to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010. The author is extremely grateful to Senior Editor Chris Marquis and the three anonymous reviewers for their high quality, developmental, and timely reviews throughout the review process. Chris’s encouragement was particularly instrumental in getting the paper this far. The author thanks Rekha Krishnan for selflessly and patiently reading various iterations of this paper and providing timely feedback and encouragement. Also thanks to Sathyajit Gubbi and Tom Lawrence for their constructive comments on earlier drafts of this paper. This paper has benefited from the feedback of seminar participants at Simon Fraser University, Ohio State University, University of Manitoba and the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies, participants of SFU’s Write Club, and session attendees of the 2015 annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Thanks to P. U. Krishnan, K. P. Meenakshi, Amruta Krishnan Srinivasan, and Meena Rajiv Krishnan for their encouragement. This research was supported in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Insight Development [Grant 430-2015-00107] and Simon Fraser University’s Endowed Fellowship [Grant 31-787191].