02431nas a2200157   4500008004100000245012400041210006900165260000900234300001400243490000700257520180800264653003202072100001602104700002002120856013302140       2018                        eng d00aHow do legal surprises drive organizational attention and case resolution? An analysis of false patent marking lawsuits0 aHow do legal surprises drive organizational attention and case r  c2018  a1741-17610 v473 aLegal surprises are unexpected suits or actions in which plaintiffs rely on claims or precedents that may be obscure, unfamiliar, or unknown to the defendants. Our study explores false patent marking suits, a unique type of patent-related legal surprise involving allegations of defendants marking products with ineligible patent numbers to deceive customers and/or deter competitors. An abrupt shift in U.S. Federal Courts’ interpretation of intellectual property rights (IPRs) policy amplified plaintiff incentives for filing these suits while escalating defendant penalties for proven violations. Handling costly legal surprises such as false patent marking suits requires focused attention from managers. Our core premise is that temporal and evidential cues in the timelines and storylines of plaintiffs’ legal narratives in surprise suits attract defendants’ organizational attention. We hypothesize about temporal focus (past, present, and future) and evidentiary reasoning (relevance, credibility, and inferential power) as attention cues and possible predictors of the mode (litigation or negotiation) and timing of case resolution. We apply automated content analysis to official court records for 992 false patent marking cases (2009-2011) and quantify competing risks using hazard models. We find that differences in temporal focus and evidentiary reasoning in the legal narratives of surprise suits are significant predictors of case resolution mode and timing. We also find that defendants countersuing to redirect plaintiffs’ attention is an effective negotiating tactic. We discuss the economic significance and strategic implications of our empirical findings on legal surprises, attention, case resolution mode and timing, and the unintended consequences of IPR policy changes.10aStrategy & Entrepreneurship1 aJoshi, Amol1 aHemmatian, Iman  uhttps://business.oregonstate.edu/biblio/how-do-legal-surprises-drive-organizational-attention-and-case-resolution-analysis-false01735nas a2200169   4500008004100000245017200041210006900213260000900282300009600291490000700387520095000394653003201344100001601376700002001392700002501412856012801437       2017                        eng d00aHow does agency workforce diversity influence Federal R&D funding of minority and women technology entrepreneurs? An analysis of the SBIR and STTR programs, 200120110 aHow does agency workforce diversity influence Federal RD funding  c2017  a499-519 (Winner of the Best Paper Prize for the Special Issue on Minority Entrepreneurship)0 v503 aU.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide Federal research and development (R&D) grants to technology ventures. We explore how grantor demographic diversity explains why demographically diverse grantees experience different odds for successfully transitioning from initial to follow-on R&D grants. We empirically analyze 52,126 Phase I SBIR/STTR awards granted by 11 Federal agencies (2001-2011). We find a positive association between agency workforce diversity and Phase II funding for Phase I grantees, but minority and women technology entrepreneurs are less likely to receive this funding than their non-minority and male counterparts. Agencies valuing workforce ethnic diversity or leveraging gender homophily positively influence the likelihood of women technology entrepreneurs obtaining Phase II funding. We discuss evidence-based implications for policy and practice.10aStrategy & Entrepreneurship1 aJoshi, Amol1 aInouye, Todd, M1 aRobinson, Jeffrey, A  uhttps://business.oregonstate.edu/biblio/how-does-agency-workforce-diversity-influence-federal-rd-funding-minority-and-women