Exploratory learning, innovative capacity, and managerial oversight

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 118-131

  McGrath, Rita Gunther ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529292     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3069340     Document Type: Review

References (50)

1. Amit, R., & Schoemaker, P. 1993. Strategic assets and organizational rent. Strategic Management Journal, 14: 33-46.
2. Ashby, W. R. 1956. An introduction to cybernetics. London: Chapman and Hall.
3. Block, Z., & MacMillan, I. C. 1993. Corporate venturing: Creating new businesses within the firm. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
4. Bowman, E. H., & Hurry, D. 1993. Strategy through the option lens: An integrated view of resource investments and the incremental-choice process. Academy of Management Review, 18: 760-782.
5. Brown, S., & Eisenhardt, K. 1998. Competing on the edge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
6. Burns, T., & Stalker, G. M. 1995. The management of innovation (3rd ed.) New York: Oxford University Press.
7. Carmines, E. G., & Zeller, R. A. 1979. Reliability and validity assessment. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
8. Cheng, Y., & Van de Ven, A. H. 1996. Learning the innovation journey: Order out of chaos? Organization Science, 7: 593-614.
9. Chesney, A. A., & Locke, E. A. 1991. Relationships among goal difficulty, business strategies, and performance on a complex management simulation task. Academy of Management Journal, 34: 400-424.
10. Cohen, W. M., & Levinthal, D. A. 1990. Absorptive capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35: 128-152.
11. Crampton, S., & Wagner, J. A. 1994. Precept-percept inflation in micro-organizational research: An investigation of prevalence and effect. Journal of Applied Psychology, 79: 67-77.
12. Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. 1963. A behavioral theory of the firm. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
13. Daft, R. L., & Weick, K. E. 1984. Toward a model of organizations as interpretation systems. Academy of Management Review, 9: 284-295.
14. Duncan, R. B., & Weiss, A. 1979. Organizational learning: Implications for organizational design. In B. Staw (Ed.), Research in organizational behavior, vol. 1: 75-123. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
15. Edmondson, A. 1999. Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44: 350-383.
16. Eisenhardt, K., & Tabrizi, B. 1995. Accelerating adaptive processes: Product innovation in the global computer industry. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40: 84-110.
17. Galbraith, J. 1973. Designing complex organizations. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
18. Goold, H., & Quinn, J. J. 1990. The paradox of strategic controls. Strategic Management Journal, 11: 43-57.
19. Gresov, C., Drazin, R., & Van de Ven, A. 1989. Work-unit task uncertainty, design and morale. Organization Studies, 10: 45-62.
20. Henderson, R. M., & Clark, K. B. 1990. Architectural innovation: The reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35: 9-30.
21. Kiesler, S., & Sproull, L. 1982. Managerial responses to changing environments; Perspectives on problem sensing from social cognition. Administrative Science Quarterly, 27: 548-570.
22. Knight, F. H. 1921/1971. Risk, uncertainty and profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
23. Lant, T. K., Milliken, F. J., & Batra, B. 1992. The role of managerial learning and interpretation in strategic persistence and reorientation: An empirical exploration. Strategic Management Journal, 13: 585-608.
24. Leonard-Barton, D. 1992. Core capabilities and core rigidities: A paradox in managing new product development. Strategic Management Journal, 13: 111-126.
25. Levinthal, D. A. 1997. Adaptation on rugged landscapes. Management Science, 43: 934-950.
26. Levinthal, D. A., & March J. G. 1993. The myopia of learning. Strategic Management Journal, 14: 95-112.
27. Lumpkin, G. T., & Dess, G. G. 1996. Clarifying the entrepreneurial orientation construct and linking it to performance. Academy of Management Review, 21: 135-172.
28. March, J. G. 1991. Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organization Science, 2: 71-87.
29. March, J. G., & Simon, H. 1993. Organizations. New York: Wiley.
30. McGrath, R. G. 1997. A real options logic for initiating technology positioning investments. Academy of Management Review, 22: 974-996.
31. McGrath, R. G. 1999. Falling forward: Real options reasoning and entrepreneurial failure. Academy of Management Review, 24: 13-30.
32. McGrath, R. G., MacMillan, I. C., & Venkataraman, S. 1995. Defining and developing competence: A strategic process paradigm. Strategic Management Journal, 16: 251-275.
33. McGrath, R. G., Tsai, M. H., Venkataraman, S., & MacMillan, I. C. 1996. Innovation, competitive advantage and rent: A model and test. Management Science, 42: 389-403.
34. Meyer, M., & Zucker, L. 1989. Permanently failing organizations. Newbury Park: Sage.
35. Miller, D., & Shamsie, J. 1996. The resource-based view of the firm in two environments: The Hollywood film studios from 1936 to 1965. Academy of Management Journal, 39: 519-543.
36. Mitchell, G. R., & Hamilton, W. F. 1988. Managing R&D as a strategic option. Research-Technology Management, 27 (May/June): 15-22.
37. Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. J. 1982. An evolutionary theory of economic change. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.
38. Orton, D. J., & Weick, K. E. 1990. Loosely coupled systems: A reconceptualization. Academy of Management Review, 15: 203-223.
39. Ouchi, W. G. 1977. The relationship between organizational structure and organizational control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 22: 95-113.
40. Pisano, G. P. 1994. Knowledge, integration and the locus of learning: An empirical analysis of process development. Strategic Management Journal, 15 (special issue): 85-100.
41. Podsakoff, P. M., & Organ, D. 1986. Reports in organizational research: Problems and prospects. Journal of Management, 12: 531-544.
42. Schoonhoven, C. B. 1981. Problems with contingency theory: Testing assumptions hidden within the language of contingency "theory." Administrative Science Quarterly, 26: 349-377.
43. Schumpeter, J. 1950. Capitalism, socialism, and democracy (3rd ed). New York: Harper & Row.
44. Spector, P. E. 1992. A consideration of the validity and meaning of self-report measures of job conditions. In C. L. Cooper & I. T. Robertson (Eds.), International review of industrial and organizational psychology, 2937. West Sussex, England: Wiley.
45. Thompson, J. 1967. Organizations in action: Social science bases of administrative theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
46. Tushman, M., & Anderson, P. 1986. Technological discontinuities and organizational environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31: 439-465.
47. Tushman, M. L., & O'Reilly, C. A. III. 1997. Winning through innovation: Leading organizational change and renewal. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
48. Tushman, M. L., & Drazin, R. 1985. The concept of fit in contingency theory. In B. M. Staw & L. L. Cummings (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior, vol. 7: 333-365. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
49. Weick, K. E. 1979. The social psychology of organizing. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
50. Weick, K. E., & Roberts, K. H. 1993. Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38: 357-381.