Cognition and attention

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The Dynamics of Inferential Interpretation in Experiential Learning: Deciphering Hidden Goals from Ambiguous Experience

By ASQ blogMarch 26, 20260

Bryan Spencer and Claus Rerup studied a learning arms race between market manipulators and the community they exploited. The scammers had the early ...

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Clough and Piezunka (2020). Tie Dissolution in Market Networks: A Theory of Vicarious Performance Feedback

By Hui SunNovember 6, 20200

David Clough and Henning Piezunka explain why a firm watches its competitors' performance when deciding whether to drop a shared supplier, and how ...

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Cohen, Bingham, and Hallen (2019). The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures

By changmelodyJanuary 10, 20200

Susan Cohen began studying accelerators in 2011, puzzled that new programs copying Y Combinator's recipe got wildly different results. With Christopher Bingham and ...

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Baumann, Eggers, & Stieglitz (2018). Colleagues and Competitors: How Internal Social Comparisons Shape Organizational Search and Adaptation

By amyzhaodingSeptember 12, 20180

What happens when a firm's divisions benchmark against each other instead of against their own past performance? Oliver Baumann, J.P. Eggers, and Nils ...

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Flynn, Chatman, & Spataro (2011). Getting to Know You: The Influence of Personality on Impressions and Performance of Demographically Different People in Organizations

By Chen ZhangApril 5, 20170

Francis Flynn, Jennifer Chatman, and Sandra Spataro flip the usual question about stereotyping: instead of studying perceivers, they ask whether extraverted, self-monitoring targets ...

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Chen & Nadkarni (2017): It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship

By amyzhaodingFebruary 22, 20172

Strategy research long treated time as an external constraint imposed on executives. Jianhong Chen and Sucheta Nadkarni explain why they went looking inside ...

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Jordan, Sivanathan & Galinsky (2011). Something to Lose and Nothing to Gain: The Role of Stress in the Interactive Effect of Power and Stability on Risk Taking

By madelinejkingFebruary 8, 20170

What do destabilized baboon hierarchies have to do with executive risk-taking? Jennifer Jordan, Niro Sivanathan, and Adam Galinsky trace their study of power, ...

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Vuori & Huy (2016). Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle

By Chen ZhangDecember 14, 20161

Managers at Nokia worked as filters, not daring to deliver bad news upward. Timo Vuori and Quy Huy describe how fear crept from ...

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Berg (2016). Balancing on the Creative Highwire: Forecasting the Success of Novel Ideas in Organizations

By Chen ZhangJuly 20, 20162

The scripts for Star Wars and Seinfeld were rejected multiple times. Justin Berg discusses why managers who specialize in evaluating ideas may get ...

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Kacperczyk, Beckman, & Moliterno (2015). Disentangling Risk and Change: Internal and External Social Comparison in the Mutual Fund Industry.

By Pete AcevesJuly 6, 20160

Behavioral theory and prospect theory both predict what firms do when performance dips, but tend to conflate risk with change. Aleksandra Kacperczyk, Christine ...

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Huang and Pearce (2015). Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

By cacevesumichFebruary 4, 20161

How do angel investors decide when outcomes are unknowable? Laura Huang and Jone Pearce recount building a mixed-methods paper around gut feel, the ...

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Goldstein & Hays (2011). Illusory Power Transference: The Vicarious Experience of Power

By madelinejkingJanuary 20, 20160

Merely being associated with a powerful person can make people feel powerful themselves, even when the tie gives them nothing real. Noah Goldstein ...

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Chatterjee and Hambrick (2011).Executive Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk Taking: How Narcissistic CEOs React to Their Successes and Stumbles

By cacevesumichDecember 17, 20150

Arijit Chatterjee and Donald Hambrick started noticing how much self-regard some CEOs displayed in press interviews. That variance became a research program on ...

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Gerstner, König, Enders, & Hambrick (2013). CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities

By cacevesumichJune 19, 20151

Measuring CEO narcissism meant ordering decades-old microfiche from the Chicago Public Library. Wolf-Christian Gerstner, Andreas König, Albrecht Enders, and Donald Hambrick on narcissistic ...

Tag: Cognition and attention

The Dynamics of Inferential Interpretation in Experiential Learning: Deciphering Hidden Goals from Ambiguous Experience

Clough and Piezunka (2020). Tie Dissolution in Market Networks: A Theory of Vicarious Performance Feedback

Cohen, Bingham, and Hallen (2019). The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures

Baumann, Eggers, & Stieglitz (2018). Colleagues and Competitors: How Internal Social Comparisons Shape Organizational Search and Adaptation

Flynn, Chatman, & Spataro (2011). Getting to Know You: The Influence of Personality on Impressions and Performance of Demographically Different People in Organizations

Chen & Nadkarni (2017): It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship

Jordan, Sivanathan & Galinsky (2011). Something to Lose and Nothing to Gain: The Role of Stress in the Interactive Effect of Power and Stability on Risk Taking

Vuori & Huy (2016). Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle

Berg (2016). Balancing on the Creative Highwire: Forecasting the Success of Novel Ideas in Organizations

Kacperczyk, Beckman, & Moliterno (2015). Disentangling Risk and Change: Internal and External Social Comparison in the Mutual Fund Industry.

Huang and Pearce (2015). Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

Goldstein & Hays (2011). Illusory Power Transference: The Vicarious Experience of Power

Chatterjee and Hambrick (2011).Executive Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk Taking: How Narcissistic CEOs React to Their Successes and Stumbles

Gerstner, König, Enders, & Hambrick (2013). CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities

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