A common justification for organizational change is that the circumstances in which the organization finds itself have changed, thereby eroding the value of utilizing existing knowledge. On the surface, the claim that organizations should adapt by generating new knowledge seems obvious and...

Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: <i>specialization</i> to capture the benefits of repetition and <i>variety</i> (i.e., working...

Some environments constrain the information that managers and decision makers can observe. We examine judgment in <i>censored environments</i> where a constraint, the <i>censorship point</i>, systematically distorts the observed sample. Random instances beyond the censorship point are observed at the...

Backward induction is a widely accepted principle for predicting behavior in sequential games. In the classic example of the "centipede game," however, players frequently violate this principle. An alternative is a "dynamic level-k" model, where players choose a rule from a rule hierarchy. The...

A theory based upon random search within a fixed population of technological possibilities is used to explain the manufacturing progress function. The theory is consistent with the power function relation between unit costs and cumulative output that has frequently been observed. It is also...

A critical factor in industrial competitiveness is the ability of firms to exploit new technological developments. We term this ability a firm's absorptive capacity and argue that such a capability not only enables a firm to exploit new extramural knowledge, but to predict more accurately the...