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Oversights and Foresights

By Raghu Garud (Edited by), Praveen Rattan Nayyar (Edited by), Zur Baruch Shapira (Edited by), James G. March (Foreword by)

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Table of Contents

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.