Theory posits hierarchy as a response to coordination challenges and emphasizes organizationsize and the need to transfer knowledge between people as the mainspring of these challenges.Building on the knowledge-based view, we propose that knowledge scope—the variety ofknowledge across an...

We examine how experience-induced adaptations that affect the breadth of an ongoing activity affect performance. The research on organizational learning suggests that accumulating experience, both from repetition and adaptation at the activity level, improves outcomes. Yet, findings on the...

Local and state governments routinely compete for economic activity by offering firms tax breaks and subsidies. While we have empirical evidence to show that large industrial plants produce significant local benefits, we know little about the type of firm that local governments most seek to...

In aiming to understand why teams differ in their ability to adapt to new contexts, I explore the extent to which prior experience with a previous practice impacts the ability to properly execute a new organizational practice. I generate predictions by integrating the organizational learning and...

Persistent performance differences across seemingly similar enterprises is a central puzzle in Strategy. Differences in management practices, particularly those captured by the World Management Survey (WMS), have been argued to account for some of this variation in performance. We parallel the...