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作者：Argote, Linda; Greve, Henrich R.
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：In this introductory piece, we take stock of the impact of Cyert and March's A Behavioral Theory of the Firm, describe current research trends in the behavioral tradition, and introduce the special issue's papers. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm is one of the most influential management books of all time. In the book, Cyert and March developed theoretical building blocks that became the foundations for current research in organizational studies in management, economics, political science, and ...
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作者：Gavetti, Giovanni; Levinthal, Daniel; Ocasio, William
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University
摘要：Cyert and March's (1963) A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the broader Camegie School form critical theoretical underpinnings for modem organization studies. Despite its impact, however, we suggest that researchers who rely on the Camegie School have progressively lost touch with its defining commitment to a decision-centered view of organizations. Decision making has given way to learning, routines, and an increased focus on change and adaptation; the organizational level of analysis, altho...
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作者：Pitelis, Christos N.
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：Cyert and March's (1963) seminal behavioral theory is one of the two major economics-based theories of the firm that goes inside the '' black box '' (the firm)-the other being the contribution of Edith Penrose. The two theories have differences, but also similarities, and substantial scope for cross-fertilization that has gone unnoticed in the literature. In this paper, we try to integrate important ideas from both books, paying particular attention to the issue of '' excess resources,'' slack...
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作者：Dosi, Giovanni; Marengo, Luigi
摘要：Cyert and March's A Behavioral Theory of the Firm has been acknowledged as one of the most fundamental pillars on which evolutionary theorizing in economics is built. Nelson and Winter's 1982 book is pervaded by the philosophy and concepts previously developed by Cyert, March, and Simon. Behavioral notions, such as bounded rationality are also at the heart of economic theories of institutions such as transaction costs economics. In this paper, after briefly reviewing the basic concepts of evol...
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作者：Augier, Mie; Prietula, Michael
作者单位：Stanford University; Emory University
摘要：Richard Cyert and James March's (1963) A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (ABTOF) is one of the most influential works in organization science. An important element of that work was a computational model of a duopoly, which was arguably the first computational model that instantiated organizational constructs within a substantial theoretical framework. We suggest that the academic environment within which this theory and model grew was instrumental in its emergence. Furthermore, an examination of...
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作者：Jacobides, Michael G.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：This paper examines how Greece nearly went to war with Turkey in 1996 over the uninhabited islets of Imia, to the detriment of the Greek decision makers involved. This escalation was driven by fragmented, piecemeal reactions resulting from the organizational structure of the Greek administration, which shaped identities, defined repertoires of action, sustained routines, and filtered and interpreted information. The division of labor inevitably imposed local responses that were not well calibr...
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作者：Winter, Sidney G.; Cattani, Gino; Dorsch, Alex
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; New York University
摘要：This study presents a new model of search on a rugged landscape, which employs modeling techniques from fractal geometry rather than the now-familiar NK-modeling technique. In our simulations, firms search locally in a two-dimensional fitness landscape, choosing moves in a way that responds both to local payoff considerations and to a more global sense of opportunity represented by a firm-specific preferred direction. The latter concept provides a simple device for introducing cognitive or mot...
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作者：Harris, Jared; Bromiley, Philip
作者单位：University of Virginia; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Despite the many undesirable outcomes of corporate misconduct, scholars have an inadequate understanding of corporate misconduct's causes and mechanisms. We extend the behavioral theory of the firm, which traditionally assumes away the possibility of firm impropriety, to develop hypotheses predicting that top management incentive compensation and poor organizational performance relative to aspirations increase the likelihood of financial misrepresentation. Using a sample of financial restateme...
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作者：March, James G.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Scholarship is less an individual than a collective activity. The history of A Behavioral Theory of the Firm illustrates two key aspects of the collective nature of scholarship. The first aspect is the dependence of scholarship on the institutions of scholarship. For a period of about 10 years beginning around 1954, The Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Camegie Institute of Technology was an extraordinary incubator of ideas, the '' Vienna Circle '' of its time. The second asp...
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作者：Cohen, Michael D.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：A Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Cyert and March (1963) can be interpreted as a culmination of new intellectual directions in the study of organization that began with Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior (1947). This essay shows how Simon broke with major pre-World War II intellectual traditions and thereby laid the groundwork on which A Behavioral Theory depends. It also suggests the contemporary potential of returning to themes that were set aside by Simon, but were key for prewar prag...
