Funding for this research was provided by a National Science Foundation Grant (#1307353). We thank the editor Gerry George and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and comments. We are also extremely grateful to Corrine Bendersky, Stuart Bunderson, Michelle Duguid, and seminar participants (ORG) at Penn State for their guidance on previous versions of this paper. ABSTRACT We de...

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