“Resilience in Adversity: Adverse Events and the Evolution of Physician Referral Ties”
with Dr. Jisoo Park, Assistant Professor of Management, Clark University, School of Business.
Research Abstract: We examine how individuals make tie maintenance decisions following task failures in partnerships. Prior research suggests that individuals often weaken ties following such failures, viewing them as signals of poor partner quality. However, doing so may be premature because failures can stem from a combination of individual and contextual factors. We ask which individuals make discerning tie maintenance decisions after a failure, differentiating between failures that vary in the extent of contextual influence. We examine referral relationships among 6,526 Florida physician dyads from 2016 to 2020 that experienced a shared patient death following a medical procedure. Employing a difference-in-differences design, we find that attending physicians practicing within a single hospital reduce referrals to the operating physician partner indiscriminately following a patient death. In contrast, attending physicians practicing across multiple hospitals respond more selectively: they maintain partnerships after high-risk deaths (high contextual influence) but weaken ties following low-risk deaths (low contextual influence). Our findings highlight multi-organizational experience as a key mechanism shaping informed tie decay decisions.
Held in person in Carlson 203 and via Zoom!
https://clarku.zoom.us/j/95385175083?pwd=WLmSPclTBjlN5LQntrd6fZCaFlzOFe.1
Meeting ID:953 8517 5083
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