Wei Cai

Columbia Business School

3022 Broadway

New York, NY 10027

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

19

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Do Diverse Directors Influence DEI Outcomes?

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 10 May 2024
Wei Cai, Jillian Grennan and Lin Qiu
Columbia Business School, Emory University and Purdue University
Downloads 2,106 (16,280)
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Corporate Governance, Board of Directors, Board Diversity, Gender, Corporate Culture, Ethnicity, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Institutional investors, Shareholder activism

2.

Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 19-101
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Dec 2022
Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School - Accounting and Control
Downloads 1,674 (23,302)

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Passing the Mic: Career and Firm Outcomes of Executive Interactions

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2022
Wei Cai, Ethan Rouen and Yuan Zou
Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 742 (74,519)

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Reputation-Building Actions After Corporate Social Irresponsibility

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2024
Columbia Business School, Yale School of Management, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 643 (89,496)
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reputation repair, corporate social responsibility, ESG, labor violation, environmental violation

5.

Diversity Targets

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Columbia Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 579 (102,306)
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Diveristy Targets, ESG Disclosure

6.

Measuring Organizational Capital

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 03 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2025
Wei Cai, Andrea Prat and Jiehang Yu
Columbia Business School, Columbia University in the City of New York and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Organizational capital, Measures, Intangible asset

7.

CEO-Board Cultural Proximity

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 May 2023 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2024
Philip G. Berger, Wei Cai and Lin Qiu
University of Chicago - Chookaszian Accounting Research Center, Columbia Business School and Purdue University
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CEO-board cultural proximity; CEO-board dynamics, CEO-board dynamics

8.

Employer and Employee Responses to Generative AI: Early Evidence

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 27 Jun 2024 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2024
University of Chicago - Chookaszian Accounting Research Center, Columbia Business School, Purdue University and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 446 (140,894)
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Generative AI, Employer and Employee Response, Labor Market

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Preparing for a Rainy Day: Firm Capital and Novel Risk

Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2022
Wei Cai, Robert S. Kaplan and Yuan Zou
Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 343 (189,204)
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10.

Measuring Firms’ Value Drivers

Number of pages: 119 Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2024
Columbia Business School, Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit, University of Melbourne and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Management accounting, value drivers, firm strategy, measures

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The External Value of Internal Employee Responsiveness: Evidence from the Field

Number of pages: 129 Posted: 15 May 2023 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2024
Columbia Business School, Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 319 (204,644)

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internal coordination, employee responsiveness, customer trust, signaling

12.

Upward Influencers in Teams

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 13 May 2023
Wei Cai, Yaxuan Chen and Jee-Eun Shin
Columbia Business School, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Downloads 310 (211,103)

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13.

Incentive Contracts and Employee-Initiated Innovation: Evidence from the Field

AAA 2019 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2018
Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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employee-initiated innovation, contract design, creativity, low-powered incentives

14.

Formalizing the Informal: Adopting a Formal Culture-fit Measurement System in the Employee Selection Process

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Apr 2023
Wei Cai
Columbia Business School
Downloads 297 (220,961)

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management control system; organizational culture; employee selection

15.

Minority Representation at Work

George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy & the State Working Paper No. 343
Number of pages: 109 Posted: 09 May 2024
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, Columbia Business School, Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 276 (238,551)

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Corporate Governance, Labor Representation, Gender Quota, Job Satisfaction

16.

Supervisor Behavior in Times of External Performance Pressure

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 May 2024
Columbia Business School, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Downloads 226 (291,053)

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supervisor behavior, management control, external pressure JEL codes: D20, D82, M10, M14, M41

17.

Does Mercy Bear Richer Fruits than Strict Justice? Implicit Effects of Subjective Rewards and Penalties in Tournaments

AAA 2018 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Aug 2017
Wei Cai and Susanna Gallani
Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads 158 (403,421)

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Tournaments, Subjective Performance Evaluation, Relative Performance Evaluation, Implicit Rewards and Penalties

18.

Throwing Curveballs: Unpacking Surprising Questions in Evaluative Settings and Probing their Origins 

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 4881896
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Management, Columbia Business School and University of California, Berkeley
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economic scoiology, expression games, natural language processing, discourse, executives

19.

Incentive Contract Design and Employee-Initiated Innovation: Evidence from the Field

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 40 no. 1 (Spring 2023): 292-323.
Posted: 09 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2024
Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

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employee-initiated innovation, incentive contract design, decision-influencing, decision-facilitating, rank-and-file, extra-role behaviors