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Atul Teckchandani Ph.D. Candidate, Organizational
Behavior Hi, I'm Atul, a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at the Haas School of Business, with an expected graduation date of May 2010. I am currently on the job market. Broadly speaking, my research interests include: community ecology, social networks, and entrepreneurship. My dissertation focuses on the reciprocal relationship between organizations and residential communities. Specifically, I study how different types of organizations affect entrepreneurship activity in communities based on how they interact with one another. I study these issues by focusing on the relationships created by two types of organization: commercial banks and voluntary associations. In my job talk paper, I study how the presence of certain types of banks affects community employment via their lending practices. By providing financial resources to businesses, banks are spurring entrepreneurship and creating jobs. But locally-owned and absentee-owned banks differ in their lending practices and the type of information they use when making lending decisions. These differences make them more or less likely to lend to certain types of businesses. I propose that the effect of banks on community employment is contingent on the presence of the type of businesses to which the bank is more likely to lend. I classify businesses based on two characteristics: size and asset intensity. Empirical analyses on businesses in every community within the contiguous United States from 1994-2007 support the theory. I find that locally-owned banks positively contribute to community employment when lending to small businesses. While both types of banks positively affect community employment when lending to businesses with tangible assets, only locally-owned banks positively affect community employment when lending to businesses with intangible assets. The expected contribution is to demonstrate the applicability of ecological theories and methods to the study of job creation and small business development. I also have a paper, co-authored with Pino G. Audia, that is currently under review at Social Science Research. It makes two empirical contributions to the literature on the effect of voluntary associations on economic activity in residential communities. First, using a longitudinal database covering the entire United States, we differentiate between the effect of voluntary associations that are connected to other voluntary associations through the multiple membership of their members and voluntary associations that lack these ties. Second, we test for the existence of a conditional effect of the areal size of the spatial units under consideration, comparing results at the local community and the state level of analyses. We find that connected voluntary associations have a positive effect on the density of manufacturing establishments whereas isolated voluntary associations either have a negative effect or do not have any effect. Both local community and state level analyses reveal this pattern but the effects are larger when the spatial unit of analysis is the local community. Thank you for visiting! |
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