| Description |
xv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Technological Learning, Oversights and Foresights: An Overview Raghu Garud, Praveen Nayyar and Zur Shapira -- Part II. Learning to Flip Coins: 2. On Flipping Coins and Making Technology Choices: Luck as an explanation of technological foresight and oversight Jay Barney -- 3. Technological Choices and the Inevitability of Errors Raghu Garud, Praveen Nayyar and Zur Shapira -- 4. Rational Entrepreneurs or Optimistic Martyrs? Some considerations on technological regimes, industrial dynamics, and the evolutionary role of decision biases Giovanni Dosi and Dan Lovallo -- Part III. Tailoring Fits: 5. Cognition and Capabilities: Opportunities seized and missed in the history of the computer industry Richard Langlois -- 6. Changing the Game of Corporate Research: Learning to think in the fog of reality John Seeley Brown -- 7. Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity and Innovation: The case of R&D downsizing Teresa Amabile and Regina Conti -- Part IV. Remembering to Forget: 8. Local rationality, global blunders, and the boundaries of technological choice: Lessons from IBM and DOS Joseph Porac -- 9. Of Life Cycles Real and Imaginary Rebecca Henderson -- 10. Three Faces of Organizational Learning: wisdom, inertia, and discovery Dan Levinthal -- 11. Organizational Entrepreneurship in Mature Industry Firms: Foresight, Oversight and Invisibility Mariann Jelinek -- 12. Minimizing Technological Oversights: A marketing research perspective Jehoshua Eliashberg, Gary L. Lilien and Vithala R. Rao -- Part V. (S)top Management and Culture: 13. Firm Capabilites and Managerial Decision-Making: A theory of innovation biases, Janet Bercovitz, John Figueiredo and David Teece -- 14. Organizational Responsiveness to Environmental Shock as an Indicator of Organizational Foresight and Oversight: The role of executive team characteristics and organizational context Peter Murmann and Michael Tushman -- 15. Technological Innovation, Learning and Leadership Andrew H. Van de Ven and David Grazman -- 16. Risky Lessons: Conditions for Organizational Learning Baruch Fischhoff, Zvi Lanir and Stephen Johnson -- 17. Exploiting Enthusiasm: A case study of applied theories of innovation Gideon Kunda -- Part VI. Clearing the Fog: 18. Beating the Odds: Towards a theory of technological innovation Raghu Garud, Praveen Nayyar, and Zur Shapira |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
| Subject |
Decision making.
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Technological innovations.
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| Author |
Garud, Raghu.
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Nayyar, Praveen Rattan.
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Shapira, Zur.
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| LC no. |
96029121 |
| ISBN |
0521552990 (hardback) |
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