Toward a theory of intraorganizational attention based on desirability and feasibility factors

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barreto, Ilidio; Patient, David L.
• 署名单位: Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2029
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 687-703
• 关键词: attention; capability perception; opportunity; threat; shock distance

摘要

Why would managers in the same firm differ in their attention to opportunity versus threat aspects of the same exogenous shock? Drawing on the attention-based view, strategic issue diagnosis theory, and construal level theory, we propose and test a theoretical model of differentiated attention among managers within a firm driven by desirability (shock distance) and feasibility (capability perception) considerations. Managers more distant from the locus of the shock and managers with stronger ex ante perceptions regarding organizational capabilities to address the shock paid more attention to opportunity aspects and less attention to threat aspects. We also found subordination effects between shock distance and capability perception, and a moderating role of domain-specific experience on the effects of capability perception.Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.