Research

I explore these questions through three interrelated streams of research. 

1. The first examines acquisitions as complex processes of firm scope expansion, where organizations must navigate uncertainty and information asymmetry while collaborating with counterparts to ultimately complete an ownership transition. I study how both acquirers and targets manage these challenges throughout the process and how their decisions shape acquisition outcomes. 

2. The second stream focuses on interfirm collaborations, investigating how organizations negotiate, design, and revise contracts to balance cooperation and control. These agreements reflect firms’ governance choices, particularly under behavioral uncertainty, as they learn, adapt, and respond to evolving partnership dynamics. 

3. The third stream explores how firms make strategic decisions under pressure, such as during product recalls, leadership transitions, or major shifts in direction. These critical moments reveal how behavioral factors shape firms’ responses to risk, ambiguity, and time-sensitive trade-offs.

Across all three streams, I draw on theories such as transaction cost economics, regulatory focus theory, organizational learning, and power dynamics to examine the behavioral foundations of firm scope decisions. Methodologically, I employ large data, content analysis, survey analysis, machine learning, and quasi-experimental designs to investigate these complex decision-making processes.