Abito, Besanko, and Diermeier have produced a masterful study of firms facing challenges to their reputations by social activists seeking to induce greater corporate social responsibility and self-regulation.The study is based on formal, dynamic theory and computational economics that reveal intriguing insights into firm and activist strategies, including reputation management, campaign intensity, and target selection.
Jose Miguel Abito is Assistant Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
David Besanko is IBM Professor of Regulation & Competitive Practices at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in the Econometrica, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Law and Economics.
Daniel Diermeier serves as the thirteenth Provost of the University of Chicago, where he is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor at the Harris School Public Policy and the College. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIFAR).