I primarily study how firms interact with stakeholders and conditions under which these stakeholders, in turn, impact firm adaptation. In my dissertation, I show that information intermediaries, such as local media, link market pressures with stakeholder accountability and condition the exercise of firms’ adaptation capabilities.

In my job-market paper, I argue that local media, by acting as an information intermediary for disenfranchised stakeholders, increases the visibility of labor-displacing decisions and raises their expected reputational costs. As a result, firms in stronger local media environments become less willing to undertake adaptive actions that impose concentrated harm on workers and communities. 

 
My job-market paper is available here.