Penalizing the Underdogs? Employment Protection and the Competitive Dynamics of Firm Innovation

The author thanks his dissertation committee members, J. P. Eggers, Deepak Hegde, Zur Shapira, and Belen Villalonga, for their encouragement and patience, and the senior editor, P. K. Toh, and the two anonymous reviewers for their guidance. He also thanks Viral Acharya, Beth Bechky, Luis Cabral, Sungyong Chang, Claudine Gartenberg, Aseem Kaul, Bruce Kogut, Sunkee Lee, Henry Sauermann, Melissa Schilling, Rob Seamans, Gabriel Szulanski, and Andy Wu; and seminar participants at New York University, Columbia Business School, University of South Carolina, INSEAD, London Business School, Imperial College London, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, University of Minnesota, Wharton School, IESE Business School, University of Texas at Austin, and Bocconi University for their helpful contributions and comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.