Post by University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

🎊 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗗𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗻 Laura Dupin (Entrepreneurship and Innovation section) has received a Best Accepted Paper recognition at the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Her paper is titled 'Proximity is Similarity? Identity Unmasking and Competition in Markets'. Her research sheds new light on 'categorical freeriding', where firms benefit from association with a market category without truly meeting its criteria. Dupin's key finding is that spacial proximity plays a crucial role in revealing categorical freeriding. Drawing on secondary data and 2 experiments in the French bread market, the study offers robust evidence for the mechanisms through which categorical freeriding is unmasked. ➡️ Read more about the paper here: https://edu.nl/x638c