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Behavioral theory of the firm and organizational learning

The Carnegie School: bounded rationality, aspirations, search, routines and learning.

Of its 126 readings, 49 are assigned in two or more sources and listed first, with the number of sources beside each (in bold for the core readings, in 4 or more); the 77 listed in only one source are folded under each heading.

In the theory tree: grows out of 2 Classical foundations; leads to 16 Evolutionary theory, technology and innovation and 17 Strategy process, practice and cognition.

Drawn from: Maoret (IESE); Yao (HBS); Pollock (Tennessee); Clough (UBC); Levinthal (Wharton); Yiu (CUHK); Zuckerman (MIT); Sullivan (HKUST); Kogut & Keum (Columbia); Glaser (Alberta); Lu, Li, Park, Yang & Yan (CityU); Wan (CUHK); Jia (USC); Fiss (USC); Lounsbury & Zhao (Oxford Bibliographies); Zhou (HKU); Dobbin (Harvard); Peng (UT Dallas); Anteby (Boston University). Full details of the sources are on the reading lists page.

By decade

Before 1950: 1 reading<19501950s: 2 readings1950s1960s: 7 readings1960s1970s: 6 readings1970s1980s: 10 readings1980s1990s: 29 readings1990s2000s: 46 readings462000s2010s: 24 readings2010s2020s: 1 reading2020s
Most date from the 2000s; half were published in 2001 or later.

15.1 Foundations: the behavioral theory of the firm

  1. Gavetti, G., Greve, H. R., Levinthal, D. A., & Ocasio, W. (2012). The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects. Academy of Management Annals, 6(1), 1–40. https://doi.org/10.5465/19416520.2012.6568418
  2. Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1992). A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Blackwell.7
  3. Argote, L., & Greve, H. R. (2007). A Behavioral Theory of the Firm—40 Years and Counting: Introduction and Impact. Organization Science, 18(3), 337–349. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.02804
  4. Gavetti, G., Levinthal, D., & Ocasio, W. (2007). Perspective—Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future. Organization Science, 18(3), 523–536. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.02773
6 more, listed in one source
  1. Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1963). A Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm.
  2. Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1963). A summary of basic concepts. In A behavioral theory of the firm.
  3. Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1963). Introduction; A summary of basic concepts in the behavioral theory of the firm. Chapters 1 and 7 in A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  4. March, J. G. (1996). Continuity and Change in Theories of Organizational Action. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(2), 278. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393720
  5. Augier, M., & Prietula, M. (2007). Perspective—Historical Roots of the A Behavioral Theory of the Firm Model at GSIA. Organization Science, 18(3), 507–522. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0276
  6. Liu, C., Maslach, D., Desai, V., & Madsen, P. (2015). The First 50 Years and the Next 50 Years of A Behavioral Theory of the Firm: An Interview With James G. March. Journal of Management Inquiry, 24(2), 149–155. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492614548487

15.2 Bounded rationality, goals, coalitions and decision making

  1. Cohen, M. D., March, J. G., & Olsen, J. P. (1972). A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Administrative Science Quarterly, 17(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/23920889
  2. March, J. G., & Simon, H. A. (1958). Organizations.3
  3. March, J. G. (1962). The Business Firm as a Political Coalition. The Journal of Politics, 24(4), 662–678. https://doi.org/10.1017/s00223816000161693
  4. Allison, G. T. (1969). Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis. American Political Science Review, 63(3), 689–718. https://doi.org/10.2307/19544232
  5. Bower, J. L. (1970). Managing the Resource Allocation Process: A Study of Corporate Planning and Investment. HBS Division of Research.2
  6. Padgett, J. F. (1980). Managing Garbage Can Hierarchies. Administrative Science Quarterly, 25(4), 583. https://doi.org/10.2307/23922822
  7. Bourgeois, L. J., & Eisenhardt, K. M. (1988). Politics of Strategic Decision Making in High-Velocity Environments: Toward a Midrange Theory. Academy of Management Journal.2
  8. Levitt, B., & Nass, C. (1989). The Lid on the Garbage Can: Institutional Constraints on Decision Making in the Technical Core of College-Text Publishers. Administrative Science Quarterly, 34(2), 190. https://doi.org/10.2307/29898952
  9. Noda, T., & Bower, J. L. (1996). Strategy making as iterated processes of resource allocation. Strategic Management Journal, 17(S1), 159–192. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.42501710112
  10. Olsen, J. P. (2001). Garbage Cans, New Institutionalism, and the Study of Politics. American Political Science Review, 95(1), 191–198. https://doi.org/10.1017/s00030554010001202
  11. Bendor, J., Moe, T. M., & Shotts, K. W. (2001). Recycling the Garbage Can: An Assessment of the Research Program. American Political Science Review, 95(1), 169–190. https://doi.org/10.1017/s00030554010000412
17 more, listed in one source
  1. Simon, H. A. (1955). A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 69(1), 99. https://doi.org/10.2307/1884852
  2. Downs, A. (1967). Inside Bureaucracy. Boston, Little, Brown. https://doi.org/10.7249/cb156
  3. Allison, G. T. (1971). Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  4. Quinn, J. B. (1978). Strategic Change: "Logical Incrementalism". Sloan Management Review.
  5. Pfeffer, J. (1978). The Micropolitics of Organizations. In M. W. Meyer (Ed.), Environments and Organizations. Jossey-Bass.
  6. Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk. Econometrica, 47(2), 263. https://doi.org/10.2307/1914185
  7. Padgett, J. F. (1980). Bounded Rationality in Budgetary Research. American Political Science Review, 74(2), 354–372. https://doi.org/10.2307/1960632
  8. Kreps, D. (1988). Notes on the Theory of Choice. Westview publishing.
  9. Ocasio, W. (1994). Political Dynamics and the Circulation of Power: CEO Succession in U.S. Industrial Corporations, 1960-1990. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39(2), 285. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393237
  10. Smith, A. D., & Zeithaml, C. (1996). Garbage Cans and Advancing Hypercompetition: The Creation and Exploitation of New Capabilities and Strategic Flexibility in Two Regional Bell Operating Companies. Organization Science, 7(4), 388–399. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.7.4.388
  11. Shen, W., & Cannella, A. A. (2002). Power Dynamics within Top Management and Their Impacts on CEO Dismissal Followed by inside Succession. Academy of Management Journal, 45(6), 1195–1206. https://doi.org/10.2307/3069434
  12. Bower, J. L., & Gilbert, C. G. (2005). From Resource Allocation to Strategy. Oxford University Press.
  13. Zhang, Y. (2006). The presence of a separate COO/president and its impact on strategic change and CEO dismissal. Strategic Management Journal, 27(3), 283–300. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.517
  14. Jacobides, M. G. (2007). The Inherent Limits of Organizational Structure and the Unfulfilled Role of Hierarchy: Lessons from a Near-War. Organization Science, 18(3), 455–477. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0278
  15. Levinthal, D. A. (2011). A behavioral approach to strategy—what's the alternative? Strategic Management Journal, 32(13), 1517–1523. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.963
  16. Gigerenzer, G., & Gaissmaier, W. (2011). Heuristic Decision Making. Annual Review of Psychology, 62(1), 451–482. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145346
  17. Cohen, S. L., Bingham, C. B., & Hallen, B. L. (2019). The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(4), 810–854. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839218782131

15.3 Aspirations and performance feedback

  1. Greve, H. R. (1998). Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(1), 58. https://doi.org/10.2307/23935918
  2. Audia, P. G., & Greve, H. R. (2006). Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry. Management Science, 52(1), 83–94. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1050.04462
  3. Mishina, Y., Dykes, B. J., Block, E. S., & Pollock, T. G. (2010). Why “Good” Firms do Bad Things: The Effects of High Aspirations, High Expectations, and Prominence on the Incidence of Corporate Illegality. Academy of Management Journal, 53(4), 701–722. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.528145782
  4. Desai, V. M. (2016). The Behavioral Theory of the (Governed) Firm: Corporate Board Influences on Organizations’ Responses to Performance Shortfalls. Academy of Management Journal, 59(3), 860–879. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2013.09482
11 more, listed in one source
  1. Greve, H. R. (2002). Sticky Aspirations: Organizational Time Perspective and Competitiveness. Organization Science, 13(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.13.1.1.540
  2. Greve, H. R. (2003). Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Innovation and Change. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511615139
  3. Baum, J. A. C., Rowley, T. J., Shipilov, A. V., & Chuang, Y.-T. (2005). Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(4), 536–575. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.50.4.536
  4. Baum, J. A. C., & Dahlin, K. B. (2007). Aspiration Performance and Railroads’ Patterns of Learning from Train Wrecks and Crashes. Organization Science, 18(3), 368–385. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1060.0239
  5. Shimizu, K. (2007). Prospect Theory, Behavioral Theory, and the Threat-Rigidity Thesis: Combinative Effects on Organizational Decisions to Divest Formerly Acquired Units. Academy of Management Journal, 50(6), 1495–1514. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2007.28226158
  6. Ethiraj, S. K., & Levinthal, D. (2009). Hoping for A to Z While Rewarding Only A: Complex Organizations and Multiple Goals. Organization Science, 20(1), 4–21. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0358
  7. Kim, J.-Y., Haleblian, J., & Finkelstein, S. (2011). When Firms are Desperate to Grow via Acquisition: The Effect of Growth Patterns and Acquisition Experience on Acquisition Premiums. Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(1), 26–60. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.2011.56.1.026
  8. Shinkle, G. A. (2012). Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals: Building on the Past and Aiming for the Future. Journal of Management, 38(1), 415–455. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206311419856
  9. Kacperczyk, A., Beckman, C. M., & Moliterno, T. P. (2015). Disentangling Risk and Change: Internal and External Social Comparison in the Mutual Fund Industry. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60(2), 228–262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839214566297
  10. Posen, H. E., Keil, T., Kim, S., & Meissner, F. D. (2018). Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda. Academy of Management Annals, 12(1), 208–251. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2016.0018
  11. Hu, S., Gentry, R. J., Quigley, T. J., & Boivie, S. (2023). Who's in the Driver's Seat? Exploring Firm-Level vs. CEO-Level Effects on Problemistic Search. Journal of Management, 49(4), 1187–1212. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063211063823

15.4 Organizational learning

  1. Levitt, B. (1988). Organizational Learning. Annual Review of Sociology, 14(1), 319–340. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.14.1.3198
  2. Levinthal, D. A., & March, J. G. (1993). The myopia of learning. Strategic Management Journal, 14(S2), 95–112. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.42501410093
  3. Beckman, C. M., & Haunschild, P. R. (2002). Network Learning: The Effects of Partners' Heterogeneity of Experience on Corporate Acquisitions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47(1), 92–124. https://doi.org/10.2307/30948923
  4. Kim, J.-Y., & Miner, A. S. (2007). Vicarious Learning from the Failures and Near-Failures of Others: Evidence from the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry. Academy of Management Journal, 50(3), 687–714. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2007.255297553
  5. Rapping, L. (1965). Learning and World War II Production Functions. Review of Economics and Statistics, 47(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.2307/19241262
  6. Fiol, C. M., & Lyles, M. A. (1985). Organizational Learning. Academy of Management Review, 10(4), 803. https://doi.org/10.2307/2580482
  7. Barnett, W. P., & Hansen, M. T. (1996). The red queen in organizational evolution. Strategic Management Journal, 17(S1), 139–157. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.42501710102
  8. Kraatz, M. S. (1998). Learning by Association? Interorganizational Networks and Adaptation to Environmental Change. Academy of Management Journal, 41(6), 621–643. https://doi.org/10.2307/2569612
  9. Haunschild, P. R., & Sullivan, B. N. (2002). Learning from Complexity: Effects of Prior Accidents and Incidents on Airlines' Learning. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47(4), 609–643. https://doi.org/10.2307/30949112
  10. Sorenson, O. (2003). Interdependence and Adaptability: Organizational Learning and the Long–Term Effect of Integration. Management Science, 49(4), 446–463. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.49.4.446.144182
  11. Levinthal, D., & Rerup, C. (2006). Crossing an Apparent Chasm: Bridging Mindful and Less-Mindful Perspectives on Organizational Learning. Organization Science, 17(4), 502–513. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1060.01972
  12. Barnett, W. P., & Pontikes, E. G. (2008). The Red Queen, Success Bias, and Organizational Inertia. Management Science, 54(7), 1237–1251. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1070.08082
  13. Briscoe, F., & Murphy, C. (2012). Sleight of Hand? Practice Opacity, Third-party Responses, and the Interorganizational Diffusion of Controversial Practices. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57(4), 553–584. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392124650772
  14. Yiu, D. W., Xu, Y., & Wan, W. P. (2014). The Deterrence Effects of Vicarious Punishments on Corporate Financial Fraud. Organization Science, 25(5), 1549–1571. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2014.09042
22 more, listed in one source
  1. Lieberman, M. B. (1984). The Learning Curve and Pricing in the Chemical Processing Industries. The RAND Journal of Economics, 15(2), 213. https://doi.org/10.2307/2555676
  2. Argote, L., & Epple, D. (1990). Learning Curves in Manufacturing. Science, 247(4945), 920–924. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.247.4945.920
  3. Argote, L., Beckman, S. L., & Epple, D. (1990). The Persistence and Transfer of Learning in Industrial Settings. Management Science, 36(2), 140–154. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.36.2.140
  4. Epple, D., Argote, L., & Devadas, R. (1991). Organizational Learning Curves: A Method for Investigating Intra-Plant Transfer of Knowledge Acquired Through Learning by Doing. Organization Science, 2(1), 58–70. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2.1.58
  5. Virany, B., Tushman, M. L., & Romanelli, E. (1992). Executive Succession and Organization Outcomes in Turbulent Environments: An Organization Learning Approach. Organization Science, 3(1), 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.3.1.72
  6. Haunschild, P. R. (1993). Interorganizational Imitation: The Impact of Interlocks on Corporate Acquisition Activity. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38(4), 564. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393337
  7. Day, G. S. (1994). The Capabilities of Market-Driven Organizations. Journal of Marketing, 58(4), 37–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/002224299405800404
  8. Slater, S. F., & Narver, J. C. (1995). Market Orientation and the Learning Organization. Journal of Marketing, 59(3), 63–74. https://doi.org/10.1177/002224299505900306
  9. Miner, A. S., & Mezias, S. J. (1996). Ugly Duckling No More: Pasts and Futures of Organizational Learning Research. Organization Science, 7(1), 88–99. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.7.1.88
  10. Baum, J. A. C., & Ingram, P. (1998). Survival-Enhancing Learning in the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1898–1980. Management Science, 44(7), 996–1016. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.44.7.996
  11. Haleblian, J., & Finkelstein, S. (1999). The Influence of Organizational Acquisition Experience on Acquisition Performance: A Behavioral Learning Perspective. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(1), 29–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2667030
  12. Thompson, P. (2001). How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study. Journal of Political Economy, 109(1), 103–137. https://doi.org/10.1086/318605
  13. Schilling, M. A., Vidal, P., Ployhart, R. E., & Marangoni, A. (2003). Learning by Doing Something Else: Variation, Relatedness, and the Learning Curve. Management Science, 49(1), 39–56. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.49.1.39.12750
  14. Denrell, J. (2003). Vicarious Learning, Undersampling of Failure, and the Myths of Management. Organization Science, 14(3), 227–243. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.14.2.227.15164
  15. Greve, H. R. (2005). Interorganizational Learning and Heterogeneous Social Structure. Organization Studies, 26(7), 1025–1047. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840605053539
  16. Rao, R. D., & Argote, L. (2006). Organizational learning and forgetting: The effects of turnover and structure. European Management Review, 3(2), 77–85. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500057
  17. Haunschild, P., & Chandler, D. (2008). Institutional-Level Learning: Learning as a Source of Institutional Change. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin, & R. Suddaby (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (pp. 624–649). SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781849200387.n27
  18. Lampel, J., Shamsie, J., & Shapira, Z. (2009). Experiencing the Improbable: Rare Events and Organizational Learning. Organization Science, 20(5), 835–845. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1090.0479
  19. Christianson, M. K., Farkas, M. T., Sutcliffe, K. M., & Weick, K. E. (2009). Learning Through Rare Events: Significant Interruptions at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum. Organization Science, 20(5), 846–860. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0389
  20. Muehlfeld, K., Rao Sahib, P., & Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2012). A contextual theory of organizational learning from failures and successes: A study of acquisition completion in the global newspaper industry, 1981–2008. Strategic Management Journal, 33(8), 938–964. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.1954
  21. Argote, L. (2012). Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5251-5
  22. Greve, H. R., & Seidel, M. L. (2015). The thin red line between success and failure: Path dependence in the diffusion of innovative production technologies. Strategic Management Journal, 36(4), 475–496. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2232

15.5 Exploration and exploitation

  1. March, J. G. (1991). Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning. Organization Science, 2(1), 71–87. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2.1.7115
8 more, listed in one source
  1. Sorenson, O., & Sørensen, J. B. (2001). Finding the right mix: franchising, organizational learning, and chain performance. Strategic Management Journal, 22(6-7), 713–724. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.185
  2. Rivkin, J. W., & Siggelkow, N. (2003). Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design. Management Science, 49(3), 290–311. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.49.3.290.12740
  3. Rosenkopf, L., & McGrath, P. (2011). Advancing the Conceptualization and Operationalization of Novelty in Organizational Research. Organization Science, 22(5), 1297–1311. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0637
  4. Manso, G. (2011). Motivating Innovation. The Journal of Finance, 66(5), 1823–1860. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2011.01688.x
  5. Posen, H. E., & Levinthal, D. A. (2012). Chasing a Moving Target: Exploitation and Exploration in Dynamic Environments. Management Science, 58(3), 587–601. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1110.1420
  6. Csaszar, F. A. (2013). An Efficient Frontier in Organization Design: Organizational Structure as a Determinant of Exploration and Exploitation. Organization Science, 24(4), 1083–1101. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0784
  7. Levinthal, D. A. (2017). Mendel in the C-Suite: Design and the Evolution of Strategies. Strategy Science, 2(4), 282–287. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2017.0047
  8. Lee, S. (2019). Learning-by-Moving: Can Reconfiguring Spatial Proximity Between Organizational Members Promote Individual-level Exploration? Organization Science, 30(3), 467–488. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1291

15.6 Knowledge, absorptive capacity and transfer

  1. Cohen, W. M., & Levinthal, D. A. (1990). Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(1), 128. https://doi.org/10.2307/239355311
  2. Kogut, B., & Zander, U. (1992). Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology. Organization Science, 3(3), 383–397. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.3.3.3835
  3. Darr, E. D., Argote, L., & Epple, D. (1995). The Acquisition, Transfer, and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations: Productivity in Franchises. Management Science, 41(11), 1750–1762. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.41.11.17504
  4. Winter, S. G., & Szulanski, G. (2001). Replication as Strategy. Organization Science, 12(6), 730–743. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.12.6.730.100843
  5. Hayek, F. (1945). The use of knowledge in society. American Economic Review.2
  6. Rivkin, J. W. (2000). Imitation of Complex Strategies. Management Science, 46(6), 824–844. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.46.6.824.119402
  7. Zahra, S. A., & George, G. (2002). Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension. Academy of Management Review, 27(2), 185. https://doi.org/10.2307/41343512
5 more, listed in one source
  1. Zander, U., & Kogut, B. (1995). Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test. Organization Science, 6(1), 76–92. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.6.1.76
  2. Szulanski, G. (1996). Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 17(S2), 27–43. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250171105
  3. Brown, J. S., & Duguid, P. (2001). Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective. Organization Science, 12(2), 198–213. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.12.2.198.10116
  4. Hansen, M. T. (2002). Knowledge Networks: Explaining Effective Knowledge Sharing in Multiunit Companies. Organization Science, 13(3), 232–248. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.13.3.232.2771
  5. Wales, W. J., Parida, V., & Patel, P. C. (2013). Too much of a good thing? Absorptive capacity, firm performance, and the moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation. Strategic Management Journal, 34(5), 622–633. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2026

15.7 Cognition, attention, search and adaptation

  1. Tripsas, M., & Gavetti, G. (2000). Capabilities, cognition, and inertia: evidence from digital imaging. Strategic Management Journal, 21(10-11), 1147–1161. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0266(200010/11)21:10/11<1147::aid-smj128>3.0.co;2-r3
  2. Gavetti, G., & Levinthal, D. (2000). Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(1), 113–137. https://doi.org/10.2307/26669813
  3. Gavetti, G., & Rivkin, J. W. (2007). On the Origin of Strategy: Action and Cognition over Time. Organization Science, 18(3), 420–439. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.02823
  4. Burgelman, R. A. (1991). Intraorganizational Ecology of Strategy Making and Organizational Adaptation: Theory and Field Research. Organization Science, 2(3), 239–262. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2.3.2392
  5. Walsh, J. P. (1995). Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Notes from a Trip Down Memory Lane. Organization Science, 6(3), 280–321. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.6.3.2802
  6. Gavetti, G. (2005). Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities’ Development. Organization Science, 16(6), 599–617. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1050.01402
  7. Kaplan, S. (2008). Cognition, Capabilities, and Incentives: Assessing Firm Response to the Fiber-Optic Revolution. Academy of Management Journal, 51(4), 672–695. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2008.336651412
  8. Ocasio, W. (2011). Attention to Attention. Organization Science, 22(5), 1286–1296. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.06022
7 more, listed in one source
  1. March, J. G. (1981). Footnotes to Organizational Change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 26(4), 563. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392340
  2. Finkelstein, S., & Hambrick, D. C. (1990). Top-Management-Team Tenure and Organizational Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(3), 484. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393314
  3. Weick, K. E., Sutcliffe, K. M., & Obstfeld, D. (1999). Organizing for high reliability: Processes of collective mindfulness. Research in Organizational Behavior.
  4. Ethiraj, S. K., & Levinthal, D. (2004). Bounded Rationality and the Search for Organizational Architecture: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Design of Organizations and Their Evolvability. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49(3), 404–437. https://doi.org/10.2307/4131441
  5. Cho, T. S., & Hambrick, D. C. (2006). Attention as the Mediator Between Top Management Team Characteristics and Strategic Change: The Case of Airline Deregulation. Organization Science, 17(4), 453–469. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1060.0192
  6. Bouquet, C., & Birkinshaw, J. (2008). Weight Versus Voice: How Foreign Subsidiaries Gain Attention From Corporate Headquarters. Academy of Management Journal, 51(3), 577–601. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2008.32626039
  7. Eggers, J. P., & Kaplan, S. (2009). Cognition and Renewal: Comparing CEO and Organizational Effects on Incumbent Adaptation to Technical Change. Organization Science, 20(2), 461–477. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0401

15.8 Other readings

No reading here is assigned in more than one source.

1 reading listed in one source
  1. Heimer, C. A. (1985). Allocating Information Costs in a Negotiated Information Order: Interorganizational Constraints on Decision Making in Norwegian Oil Insurance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 30(3), 395. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392671