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- William Ocasio
- Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2011-10
- DOI
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- 10.1287/orsc.1100.0602
- 公開者
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
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説明
<jats:p> Organizational theory and research has increased attention to the determinants and consequences of attention in organizations. Attention is not, however, a unitary concept but is used differently in various metatheories: the behavioral theory of the firm, managerial cognition, issue selling, attention-based view, and ecology. At the level of the brain, neuroscientists have identified three varieties of attention: selective attention, executive attention, and vigilance. Attention is shaped by both top-down (i.e., schema-driven) and bottom-up (i.e., stimulus-driven) processes. Inspired by neuroscience research, I classify and compare three varieties of attention studied in organization science: attentional perspective (top-down), attentional engagement (combining top-down and bottom-up executive attention and vigilance), and attentional selection (the outcome of attentional processes). Based on research findings, I develop five propositions on how the varieties of attention in organization provide a theoretical alternative to theories of structural determinism or strategic choice, with a particular focus on the role of attention in explaining organizational adaptation and change. </jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Organization Science
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Organization Science 22 (5), 1286-1296, 2011-10
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
