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PhD Candidate 2012
Daniel studies the role of identity and status in
markets. In his dissertation, he investigates when high-status affiliations are
detrimental and when status hierarchies hurt organizations and constrain
strategic choices. The first essay of his dissertation was nominated for best
paper award at the Strategic Management Conference in Rome and he has received
several awards for his reviewing activity for the Academy of Management
Conference. Before coming to Maryland, Daniel obtained his Diplom-Kaufmann at
Humboldt-University at Berlin. He worked as a research assistant for behavioral
experiments and as a market researcher in the medical device industry.
Dissertation title
Essays on high-status fallacies
Dissertation Summary
"In essay 1, a theoretical model identifies conditions under which audiences
penalize actors for high-status affiliations. The model incorporates uncertainty
and relaxes the assumption of homogeneous audience taste for conformity. A lab
experiment corroborates the theory and two field studies demonstrate that
high-status affiliations need not be beneficial. In essay 2, I find that
organizational and partner status are substitutes, not complements, in venture
capital syndication. Specifically, partnering with higher-status organizations
is detrimental to a venture capitalist once it occupies an average status
position. In essay 3, I show causal evidence for the Mertonian (1968) hypothesis
of cumulative advantage. In an organizational context, status---independent of
quality---enables producers to charge higher prices. Moreover, rigid status
hierarchies may enshrine the quality hierarchy among producers." Dissertation Chair: Brent Goldfarb
Dissertation Committee Members
Primary Research Areas
- Status
- Identity
- Innovation
Primary Teaching Interests
- OT
- Strategic Management
- TIM
Selected Publications, Conference Presentations, and Work- in-Progress
Working papers and work-in-progress
"High-status affiliations, identity creation, and rank mobility." To be submitted to the
American Journal of Sociology.
(A previous version of this paper was nominated for the best paper and best student paper awards at the SMS conference in Rome in 2010.)
"Basking in the eclipse of reflected glory: the influence of organizational and partner status on organizational success." Target journal:
Administrative Science Quarterly.
"The spirits we summoned: On the consequences of an organizational status hierarchy." (with David Waguespack).
Target journal: Management Science.
"On abandoning partners one should keep and keeping partners one should abandon: Status bias in developer/publisher dyads in the electronic game industry."
Target journal: Administrative Science Quarterly.
"Prior outcomes, beliefs, and strategic coordination: Evidence from market entry games." (with Christian Schade). To be submitted to:
Management Science.
"Causes and consequences of investor feelings" (with Brent Goldfarb and Myeong-Gu Seo). To be submitted to
Management Science.
Select conference presentations and consortia
BPS Dissertation Consortium, AOM Conference Montreal 2010.
West Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship, Seattle 2009
"High-status affiliations, identity creation, and professional success," Strategic Management Conference, Rome 2010.
"Heterogeneity in homogenizing social landscapes," AOM Conference, Montreal 2010.
Honors and Awards br />
AOM OMT division ABCD best reviewer award (2010)
AOM BPS division best reviewer award (2009)
AOM BPS division best reviewer award (2008)
Top 15% teaching award, Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
Distinguished Teaching Assistant
References
Other
Collecting wine, playing the piano,
road biking, soccer referee
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