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作者：GARUD, R; RAPPA, MA
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper examines the social and cognitive processes that unfold over time as a technology develops. Our model focuses on the relationship between the beliefs researchers hold about what is and is not technically feasible, the technological artifacts they create, and the routines they use for evaluating how well their artifacts meet with their prior expectations. The historical development of cochlear implants serves as an illustration of the model. The evidence suggests that there is a reci...
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作者：FIOL, CM
摘要：Organizational learning, like individual learning, involves the development of new and diverse interpretations of events and situations. Unlike individual learning, however, collective learning also involves developing enough consensus around those diverse interpretations for organized action to result. Traditional measures of organizational consensus are unable to capture the multiplex nature of collective agreement that encompasses both unity and diversity. Traditional wisdom thus suggests t...
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作者：MELONE, NP
摘要：This study investigates the effect of high level executives' professional experience, expertise, and role in a specific functional area such as finance or corporate development on their reasoning processes when making managerial decisions. Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and Vice-Presidents of Corporate Development (VPs) in the diversified foods industry were tape recorded as they thought aloud while evaluating four restaurant chains which were candidates for corporate acquisition. The experim...
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作者：LAUKKANEN, M
摘要：Increasingly, thoughtful managers recognize the role of knowledge and learning in corporate action and performance. Concurrently, a new field, management and organization cognition (MOC), has emerged producing useful insights and findings. Thus far, empirical studies have largely focused on single cases or actors, using often archival data and sometimes ambiguous methods. To advance the field will require pragmatic tools for eliciting data on.thinking in real organizations and for conducting r...
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作者：HARRIS, SG
摘要：Organizational culture encompasses both individual and group-level phenomena. However, to date, the individual-level dynamics of organizational culture have remained relatively neglected. This paper addresses this neglect by focusing on culture's manifestation in individuals' sensemaking structures and processes. Building off the social cognition literature, I propose that organizational culture's influence on individual sensemaking is revealed in the operation of a patterned system of organiz...
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作者：PRIEM, RL
摘要：Contingency theory suggests that a match among business-level strategy, organizational structure, and the competitive enviromment is necessary for high performance. This research asks whether manufacturing firm chief executives judge as ''good'' those strategy-structure-environment matches recommended by contingency theory. Knowledge of executive judgment is particulary important for two reasons. First, judgment-defined as an individual's understanding of relationships among objects-governs th...
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作者：GIOIA, DA; THOMAS, JB; CLARK, SM; CHITTIPEDDI, K
作者单位：Bryant University
摘要：This study investigated the uses of sensemaking, influence, and symbolism in launching a strategic change effort at a university. It employed an ethnographic/interpretive approach in examining the ways that symbols, metaphors, and various subtle influence processes were used to lend meaning to concepts and possible courses of action by a task force instrumental to the strategic change process. Two distinct researcher perspectives were used: an ''insider'' perspective employing several informan...
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作者：CORNER, PD; KINICKI, AJ; KEATS, BW
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Existing information processing theories of strategic choice focus on either the organizational or individual level of analysis. This single level focus makes these theories incomplete representations of how strategic decisions are actually made in organizations. We believe an integration of these two levels is necessary for a comprehensive view of choice. This paper thus proposes a parallel process model of strategic decision making that integrates organizational and individual level informat...
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作者：MEINDL, JR; STUBBART, C; PORAC, JF
作者单位：Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This special issue of Organization Science taps into the burgeoning work on managerial and organizational cognition. In the last 15 years, there has been a decided ''cognitive turn'' within organizational studies as researchers increasingly explore the relationships among mind, management, and organization. The early groundwork established by the Carnegie School of organizational theory, the success of modem cognitive science, and the recent diffusion of social constructionism within organizat...
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作者：BOLAND, RJ; TENKASI, RV; TEENI, D
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Cognition in organizations is a distributed phenomenon, in which individual members of an organization reflect upon their experience, make plans, or take action. Organizational learning or organizational cognition are familiar terms, but it is only the individual persons in an organization who create interpretations and test understandings, as they think and learn in their organizational setting. Coordinated outcomes emerge in organizations when individuals think and act in ways that take othe...
