Megan L. Lawrence
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PUBLICATIONS
(6) Lawrence, Megan & Christopher Poliquin. (2023). “The Growth of Hierarchy in Organizations:  Managing Knowledge Scope". Strategic Management Journal. 44(13): 3155-5184.
  • Video Abstract
  • Written up on UCLA Anderson Review: https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/complexity-begets-management-layers-how-some-small-firms-avoid-that/

(5) Dutt, Nilanjana & Megan Lawrence (2022). “Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation”. Organization Science. 33(11):1300-1318. 
  • Academy of Management (AOM) Best Paper Proceedings.  2018.

(4) Lawrence, Megan. (2020). “Replication Using Templates: Does the Unit Learn from Itself, the Template or Both?”.  Strategic Management Journal. 44(11): 1955-1982.
  • Lead Article.
  • Video Abstract - SMS Best Video Abstract Winner 2022
  • Winner of Academy of Management (AOM) Distinguished Student Paper Award. 2016.​​ 

(3) Dutt, Nilanjana & Megan Lawrence. (2018). "Complex Learning: Evidence from US Manufacturing".  Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

(2) Lawrence, Megan. (2018). “Taking Stock of the Ability to Change: The Effect of Prior Experience”. Organization Science. 29(3): 489-506.
  • Winner of Strategic Management Society (SMS) Best Conference PhD Paper Prize. 2015.
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​(1) Bennett, Victor, Megan Lawrence & Raffaella Sadun. (2017). “Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?” In Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges, edited by John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Written up on Quartz: https://work.qz.com/1125919/we-finally-have-proof-that-visionary-founders-make-the-worst-ceos/
  • Referenced in Fortune: https://fortune.com/2023/06/05/fewer-founder-ceos-fortune-500-companies/


WORKING PAPERS
​Poliquin, Christopher, Megan Lawrence, & Samina Karim. (2025). “Hierarchy Expansion in Young Firms: The Impact of Internal versus External Hiring on Performance”.
  • R&R
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Chauvin, Jasmina, Prithwiraj Choudhury, & Megan Lawrence. (2025). "Not All Remote is All Distributed: Spatial Distribution and Coordination for Remote Workers".
  • Submitted

Bennett, Victor & Megan Lawrence. (2025). "Rotation and Succession".

Bennett, Victor & Megan Lawrence. (2020). “How Much Don't We Know? Accounting for Measurement Error in Survey-based Variance Decomposition Studies.”
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Lawrence, Megan, Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Victor Canalog. (2015). “Bidding for Business: Tax Discrimination as Local Industrial Policy”.


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