Causal ambiguity, management perception, and firm performance

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Powell, TC; Lovallo, D; Caringal, C
• 署名单位: University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 175-196
• 关键词: IDIOSYNCRATIC TRAIT DEFINITIONS; SELF-SERVING ASSESSMENTS; resource-based view; Competitive advantage; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; industry; ATTRIBUTIONS; KNOWLEDGE; PERSPECTIVE; ability

摘要

We integrate and extend research on causal ambiguity, indicating the principal causal paths from ambiguity to performance and discussing the connections between empirical findings and resource-based expectations. We then develop the linkage between causal ambiguity and management perception. Drawing on experimental and field research, we give testable propositions linking ambiguity, perception, and firm performance; integrate this research with studies of causal ambiguity; and suggest directions for future causal ambiguity research.