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作者：Fang, Christina; Kim, Ji-hyun (Jason); Yang, Hisan
作者单位：New York University; Yonsei University; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：We explore how decision makers utilize external and internal knowledge in problems characterized by temporal complexity where there is a separation between action and outcome. Many strategic and organizational decisions have longer-term consequences, yet behavioral models of learning have underexplored this class of problems. Consequently, we do not know much about the role of external knowledge in tackling temporally complex problems, let alone how it interacts with internal knowledge from ex...
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作者：Mealey, Christian; Koka, Balaji R.; Hoskisson, Robert E.
作者单位：Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation; Rice University
摘要：How do firms overcome the challenge of absorbing distant knowledge? Scholars argue that organizations need knowledge that is distant from their existing knowledge base to create novel innovative output, whereas others argue, in contrast, that organizations need knowledge to be similar to the firm's knowledge base in order to absorb it. We argue that organizations can improve their ability to identify and comprehend knowledge from a distant knowledge category through learning associations made ...
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作者：Chambers, Cassandra R.; Alves, Marlon; Aceves, Pedro
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; Universite Cote d'Azur; SKEMA Business School
摘要：Organizations and the decision makers within them are increasingly subject to inconsistent performance feedback-feedback that contains elements that are incompatible with each other-which can lead to multiple interpretations of performance feedback. When this occurs, decision makers often recode inconsistent performance feedback as successful and continue with their current strategies, which allows them to avoid any self-threat from negative elements of performance feedback but implies that th...
