Haibo Liu

University of California, Riverside | UCR · Department of Management

Research has demonstrated that certain team composition factors—high expertise similarity, high network cohesion, and mixed‐gender teams—have predominantly negative effects on the teams’ invention outcomes. Yet these factors have also been shown to improve team coordination, which should (in theory) lead to better invention outcomes. We address thi...

Research has demonstrated that certain team composition factors—high expertise similarity, high network cohesion, and mixed-gender teams—have predominantly negative effects on the teams’ invention outcomes. Yet these factors have also been shown to improve team coordination, which should (in theory) lead to better invention outcomes. We address thi...

We study how Emergency Medical Service (EMS) crews attend to competing financial and social health goals during 9-1-1 calls. Prior work has highlighted performance challenges from pursuing competing organization-level goals. However, less is known about how organizations resolve these challenges when goals are interdependent and non-separable in ke...

We investigate how patient ability to pay through insurance influences the equity of care given by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) crews following 9-1-1 calls. EMS agencies are often underfunded and rely on self-generated revenues to carry out their health mission. Revenues depend on insurance reimbursement rates that typically decrease in the foll...

Creative stars make disproportionately influential contributions to their fields. Yet we know little about how an innovator's creative performance is affected by collaborating with stars. This paper studies the creative aspects of interpersonal collaboration from a distinct perspective: the quality of the collaborator. Both star and nonstar collabo...

Leveraging a firm’s knowledge assets through the replication of its productive routines is a major driver of firm growth and profitability. Yet, replicating organizational routines is far from trivial. A fundamental tension, a “replication dilemma” (Winter and Szulanski 2001), often exists between the benefits of replicating a successful system of...

Multiunit-multimarket (MUMM) organizations compete in multiple markets with multiple units that share a common template for doing business. Yet, operating in multiple environments invariably creates a tension between the benefits conferred by high-fidelity replication of the template and the potential benefits of local adaptations. Using a propriet...

Despite being rare, gurus make disproportionately influential contributions to their fields. Hence understanding their emergence is critical. Yet our knowledge about the phenomenon is limited. This paper studies the role of collaboration in the emergence of gurus among designers — namely, how a focal designer’s chances of becoming a design guru are...