Chain Affiliation and Human Resource Investments: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry

This research benefited from the generous assistance and feedback of Rosemary Batt, Sarosh Kuruvilla, John Hausknecht, Jae Eun Lee, Diane Burton, John McCarthy, Imran Hassanali, Arturs Kalnins, Felice Klein, Elizabeth McClean, Helen Liu, Benjamin Campbell, Steffanie Wilk, Wilma Liebman, Kate Griffith, Michael Harper, Lance Compa, Tony Royle, Andrew Green, and John Gordon. The authors also thank Matthew Bidwell and three anonymous reviewers for improving the paper through the review process. Earlier versions of this paper received valuable feedback from participants in seminars at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and Cornell University’s ILR School Human Resource Studies Department, as well as at the 2018 Wharton People and Organizations Conference and the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.