Committed Diversification: Why Authenticity Insulates Against Penalties for Diversification

The authors thank Ezra Zuckerman, Linda Argote, Brandy Aven, Minjae Kim, Melissa Schilling, Omar Lizardo, Brayden King; and participants in the Carnegie Mellon University Organizational Behavior and Theory Seminar Series, the 2015 Junior Faculty Organization Theory Conference, the 2015 Academy of Management Conference Symposium on Authenticity, and the 2017 Winter Strategy Conference; and they especially thank the unnamed therapists, addiction recovery clinics, and private equity firms who supplied insights and data for this work. All mistakes are the responsibility of the authors.