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{"title":"EXPRESS: Temporal Attention, Knowledge Breadth, and Firm Growth","authors":"D. Boynton","doi":"10.1177/14761270231196213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231196213","url":null,"abstract":"This study integrates the attention-based view with Edith Penrose’s theory of growth to examine how the interplay between managerial attention and newly created technological resources influences firm growth. I draw upon research showing that combining broad types of knowledge during R&D creates new technological resources which are potentially valuable, but also relatively complex and ambiguous, making them challenging to utilize effectively. I theorize that attention’s temporal orientation shapes how managers understand complex technologies and construe opportunities for their use. I hypothesize that a shorter-term attentional focus is incongruent with broad knowledge combination, resulting in a less effective and more incremental use of newly created, complex technologies and lower levels of growth. Conversely, a longer-term attentional focus helps managers understand and identify novel, strategic opportunities for such complex technologies, leading to comparatively higher levels of growth. Analysis supports these predictions using a panel dataset of 327 firms between 2003 and 2017.","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45737978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Special issue of Strategic Organization: “The question of intelligent technology: implications for strategy and organization”","authors":"Guest Anastasia, Sergeeva, L. Argote, O. Alexy, Samer Faraj","doi":"10.1177/14761270231184670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231184670","url":null,"abstract":"What are the implications of intelligent technology for strategic organization scholarship? The field of strategic organization has defined its core focus to be on “the design, administration, arrangement, or structuring of an event, activity, practice, process, group, or system so that it will be most useful or have the greatest effect” (Baum et al., 2022: 683). Although the role of technology is recognized as important in this research, the conceptual vocabulary and focus has been on issues such as how organizational structures and processes are adopted for legitimacy (Meyer and Rowan, 1977), choosing organizational designs that minimize transaction costs (Williamson, 1991) and questions of the division of labor and its integration architectures (Puranam, 2018). Today, it is clear that technologies occupy a central role in all organizing processes. And with the swift proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), there are many new possible roles that technologies can play. Many existing studies of technology within the broader research area of strategic organization have focused on how to use the opportunities provided by technology development to conceive of new business models, take advantage of shifting market boundaries, to mount new alliances, and to lead strategic change (for a summary, see Duhaime et al., 2021). The core conceptualization of technology remains as something that develops predominantly in the environment and strategy is about how best to deploy to improve existing processes or to develop new competencies and business models (e.g. Adner et al., 2019; Volberda et al., 2021). We argue that the time is ripe to recognize how technology is more constitutive of strategy and organization than has so far been recognized. One reason for this is the steady ascendance of the so-called intelligent technologies that bring with them the potential of “intelligent organizing.” In particular, the promise of the current technologies is the emergence of more intelligent organizations, such as those where (1) machines could increasingly perform the tasks that previously relied on human intelligence (consider how large language models are already revolutionizing the generation of knowledge or how algorithms can coordinate distributed work activities), and where (2) human–technology hybrids, according to “augmentation thesis,” will be able to perform intelligent work with less effort and greater creativity; and where (3) technology may allow new forms of organizing to emerge. 1184670 SOQ0010.1177/14761270231184670Strategic OrganizationCall for Papers other2023","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":"21 1","pages":"733 - 734"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42866859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Themed issue: Methodological pluralism and innovation to advance strategic organization research in organizations and fields","authors":"Amit Nigam, M. Guerra","doi":"10.1177/14761270231184668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231184668","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic Organization (SO!) launched its first issue 20 years ago with an explicit commitment to developing theoretically and methodologically pluralist research that sat at the intersection of, and helped integrate, the increasingly divergent fields of strategic management research and organizational theory (Baum et al., 2022). Over the past 20 years, this pluralism has enabled creativity and innovation in the work published in the journal. The methodological pluralism also sets it apart, in particular, from journals in strategy. This pluralism is something that is nurtured explicitly in the journal’s editorial process. Features of this process, including the one major revision policy, and an editorial process that is attentive both to the author’s voice and for empirical pieces, the voice of the data (Because data speaks! We cannot let established theory prevent us from hearing!) are, in the editorial team’s view, sources of innovation. The pieces in this issue reflect this commitment to pluralism and the author (and data’s) voice. In addition, they are testament to the idea that leveraging pluralism is a way of advancing theory. Two of us collaborated on this piece from the perspective of a co-editor at SO! (A.N.) and from the perspective of a junior scholar of strategic organization whose research programme takes a methodologically plural approach (M.G.). Both of these perspectives were essential, in particular, for situating the specific papers in this issue into a broader reflection on the values of pluralism.","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":"21 1","pages":"495 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47359978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engaging with the past: Discerning meaning in organizational imprints","authors":"Matthew C. B. Lyle, I. Walsh, Bogdan Prokopovych","doi":"10.1177/14761270221099044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270221099044","url":null,"abstract":"While scholars have explained how organizational imprints evolve, they have yet to explore how newcomers discern the meaning of existing imprints. Drawing on a field study of a home healthcare agency, we demonstrate how newcomers’ discovery of imprints spurs an assessment process through which they personalize the imprints before enacting them through task performance, affective commitment, and preferences for selection. We discuss the implications of our work for scholars seeking to better understand the cognitive and social-cognitive processes underlying newcomers’ experiences with organizational imprints and the ways in which such engagement might shape their persistence.","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":"21 1","pages":"596 - 620"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43461583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EXPRESS: Attentional Engagement and Strategic Responses to Discontinuous Environmental Change: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry","authors":"D. Mack, Theresa S. Cho, A. Yi","doi":"10.1177/14761270231187090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231187090","url":null,"abstract":"While prior research has established a link between the attention an organization allocates to the external environment and its adaptations to environmental change, the nature of the cognitive processes that underlie this link remains underexamined. In this study, we explore how patterns of attentional engagement—that is, the extent to which attention allocation is focused and/or consistent over time—influence the organization’s formulation of strategic responses to discontinuous change. We advance a situated perspective on attentional engagement by suggesting how the type of learning and cognitive processes are situated in different attentional-engagement structures, and can, in turn, lead to heterogeneous strategic responses to the same discontinuous change. Specifically, we formulate a theoretical model elaborating how varied levels of attentional focus and attentional consistency affect whether organizations respond by breaking, reinforcing, hedging, or maintaining the status quo. Subsequently, we develop and test our arguments using a dataset covering U.S. banking firms from 2002 to 2010—a period that includes the U.S. housing crisis.","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42128500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EXPRESS: Disparities in Minority Executive Dismissal: A Contingency Perspective","authors":"David B Wangrow, Kalin D. Kolev, Margaret Hughes-Morgan","doi":"10.1177/14761270231184225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231184225","url":null,"abstract":"As part of society’s motivation to address racial and ethnic disparities, scholars have examined racial/ethnic minorities’ underrepresentation in organizations’ upper echelons. However, prior research on minority executive dismissal has yielded equivocal findings. We draw on leadership categorization theory and token status theory to hypothesize that, under conditions of greater ambiguity and uncertainty, the likelihood of dismissal differs for White and non-White executives. Using a sample of NCAA Division 1 college basketball coaches over an 18-year period, we find overall support for our theorizing – lower financial support, low prestige power, and greater strategic change increase the chances of non-White executives being dismissed. Our findings have important implications for minority executive dismissal research and point to potential remedies that organizations can implement to reduce stereotyping and bias against non-White executives.","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44147213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EXPRESS: Bending the Pipes: Regaining Attention through Reinvention and Renewal","authors":"Anna Plotnikova, K. Pandza, R. Whittington","doi":"10.1177/14761270231184616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231184616","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations’ attention structures are traditionally perceived as stable ‘pipes and prisms’ representing organizational communication and procedural channels. Changes in attention structures are typically attributed to top-down interventions. In this study we extend the ‘dynamic Attention Based View’ by demonstrating first that attention structures are plastic and second that they can be ‘bent’ through bottom-up adaptations of communication channels previously designed from the top. Using a single case study of the large telecommunication corporation Ericsson, we show how mid-level organizational actors manifest distinct forms of agency in reacting to adverse changes in attention structures: projective agency and iterational agency. Organizational actors regain influence over the strategy-making process through two practices: reinvention (the projective agency of adding new channels) and renewal (the iterational agency of restoring old channels).","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48740055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EXPRESS: The Disease of Indifference: How Relational Systems Provide the Attentional Infrastructure for Organizational Resilience","authors":"Caroline A. Bartel, Kevin W. Rockmann","doi":"10.1177/14761270231183441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231183441","url":null,"abstract":"Interpersonal relationships among organization members based on trust, disclosure, and mutual respect are an important capability that organizations need to be resilient in times of crisis. Using the attention-based view (ABV), we theorize how the attention paid to interpersonal relationships among top managers continually shapes and is shaped by the quality of relationships that emerge at the unit level. We leverage the ABV to theorize how different patterns of attention are associated with configurations of structures for building interpersonal relationships, with the resulting patterns of behavior producing distinct relational systems. We contrast three relational system archetypes: relational advocacy, relational antipathy, and what we argue is the most common but least understood and most likely to weaken organizational resilience — relational indifference. These systems are theorized as central to the attentional infrastructure of the organization, impacting its capacity for attentional stability and coherence on emergent issues. The proposed framework offers a novel view of organizational resilience and interpersonal relationships with notable contributions to multiple research domains and to practice.","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41366988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EXPRESS: Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Moderating Effect of Top Managers’ Political Ideologies on the Efficacy of TMT Vertical Pay Disparities","authors":"M. K. Chin, Abhijith G. Acharya, Cynthia E. Devers","doi":"10.1177/14761270231181186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231181186","url":null,"abstract":"A debate surrounds the utility of tournament theory prescription for the pay arrangements of top executives, based on competing perspectives on the relationship between vertical pay disparities and important firm outcomes. In this study, we attempt to reconcile the competing perspectives by offering a contingency view of the utility of tournament theory prescriptions. We integrate insights from the person pay interaction theory with research on political ideology to show how top executive's individual and TMT’s team-level political ideology shapes the relationship between vertical pay disparities and top executive departure and firm performance. Using data on U.S. public firms, we find that liberal-leaning top executives are more likely to exit the firm at the higher levels than at lower levels of vertical pay disparity, whereas conservative-leaning top executives are more likely to exit the firm at the lower levels than at higher levels of vertical pay disparity. Furthermore, liberal-leaning TMTs perform better at the lower levels than at higher levels of vertical pay disparity, whereas conservative-leaning TMTs perform better at the higher levels than at lower levels of vertical pay disparity. We discuss the implications of these findings for the literature on executive compensation, corporate governance, and executive values.","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47518290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The buzzing, blooming, (potentially) confusing field of theory development in entrepreneurship research","authors":"O. Alexy, L. Berchicci, P. Jarzabkowski","doi":"10.1177/14761270231167005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231167005","url":null,"abstract":"This collection of essays is organized around the topic of theorizing in the field of entrepreneurship. It is motivated by authors with an interest in seeing entrepreneurship scholarship move beyond explaining phenomena or research contexts to considering the unique contributions that a theory of entrepreneurship might make. As editors, we were keen to take this interest forward at Strategic Organization. We see discussions over conceptual boundaries","PeriodicalId":22087,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Organization","volume":"21 1","pages":"400 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65903261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}