Research

How do firms decide when information is complex?

Daisy examines how strategic decisions and firm valuation are shaped by the availability, quality, consistency, and visibility of information.

Research statement

Multiple signals. Bounded attention. Consequential choices.

Most strategy and international business research isolates a single information cue. Yet firms and stakeholders operate amid multiple signals that may overlap, conflict, or vary in salience. Daisy’s research asks how decision makers interpret these informationally complex environments—and how those interpretations shape strategic behaviour and firm value.

Drawing on information economics, signalling theory, and the Carnegie school, her dissertation studies three linked processes: how decision makers rank information cues; how disagreement between cues affects valuation; and how firms strategically choose which cues to emphasize. CSR and ESG provide a particularly revealing setting, while related work extends the agenda to nationalism, corporate misconduct, and international expansion.

Research projects

A connected programme of inquiry

Dissertation Research · Working Paper

Signal hierarchy in cross-border acquisitions

Research question: How do decision makers prioritize firm- and country-level CSR information cues when valuing acquisition targets?
Context: Cross-border acquisitions, where acquirers face information asymmetry and must interpret cues at multiple levels.
Methods: Large-scale archival data · regression analysis · response surface analysis
Status: In preparation for journal submission

Dissertation Research · Working Paper

ESG rating divergence and firm value

Research question: When does disagreement among ESG rating agencies clarify a firm's profile—and when does it create damaging uncertainty?
Context: A multi-source panel of 4,672 US public firms covered by six rating agencies, 2002–2023.
Methods: Panel data · nonlinear modelling · moderation analysis
Status: In preparation for journal submission

Dissertation Research · Work in Progress

Information strategies after corporate misconduct

Research question: How do firms direct stakeholder attention after a scandal: by shifting attention or signalling substantive remediation?
Context: Corporate misconduct and money-laundering scrutiny in the US banking sector.
Methods: Archival and textual data · theory development
Status: Data collection

Methods

Designed for complex, multi-level questions

01Large-scale archival data

02Panel data

03Stata

04Python

05Response surface analysis

06Textual data

07Qualitative interviews

08Mixed-method research design

Academic profiles

Profiles and papers

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