Justin Frake

I am an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. My research investigates the micro-foundations of reputation-based and human capital-based competitive advantage. I teach Strategy 390 (Corporate Strategy), a senior-level BBA core course.

Research interests:

• Strategy, Human Capital, Labor Mobility, Authenticity

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Maryland College Park (2013 — 2018)
• BA University of Oklahoma (2003 — 2006)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Strategy University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business (2018)
• PhD Candidate/Research Assistant University of Maryland (2013 — 2018)
• Manager - Advisory Services Ernst & Young (2006 — 2012)
• Software Developer Telogical Systems (2004 — 2006)

RESEARCH

• Starr, E., Frake, J. Agarwal, R. 2019. Mobility Constraint Externalities. Organization Science, 30(5): 961-980.

• Byun, H., Frake, J., Agarwal, R. 2018. Leveraging Who You Know by What You
  Know: Returns to Relational and Human Capital. Strategic Management Journal,

• Frake, J. 2017. Selling Out: The Inauthenticity Discount in the Craft Beer Industry.
  Management Science, 63(11): 3930-3943.

WORKING PAPERS

• Signals or Shackles? The Effect of Patents on Inventor Mobility

• Does Money Corrupt? The Effect of Financial Performance on Organizational Misconduct (with Heejung Byun and Jihyeon Kim)

• Intergenerational Transmission of Organizational Corruption: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department (with Derek Harmon)

• The Hidden Cost of Flat Hierarchies in Attracting Human Capital: A Field Experiment (with Reuben Hurst and Saerom Ronnie Lee)