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Daniela Blettner
Researcher at Simon Fraser University
Publications - 26
Citations - 762
Daniela Blettner is an academic researcher from Simon Fraser University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Empirical research. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 20 publications receiving 625 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniela Blettner include Tilburg University & University of Southern Mississippi.
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How useful are the strategic tools we teach in business schools
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Personal Construct Theory and Repertory Grids to study managers' internal logic as they put these tools into practical use and found that managers think in dualities (often paradoxically) and have a preference for multiple-tools-in-use, tools that provide different perspectives, peripheral vision, connected thinking, simultaneously help differentiate and integrate complex issues, and guide the thinking process.
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A Measure of Variations in Internal Social Capital among Family Firms
TL;DR: The authors developed a new measure to assess the internal social capital using a sample of family firms and its effect on economic and noneconomic performance, and used it to evaluate the social capital of companies.
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Adaptive aspirations: performance consequences of risk preferences at extremes and alternative reference groups
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build on earlier models of adaptive aspirations and introduce a new risk preference function that incorporates changes in risk preference at extremes of performance, based on empirical studies and the managerial literature.
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Adaptive aspirations and performance heterogeneity: Attention allocation among multiple reference points
TL;DR: A recursive feedback model of learning from organizational experience is built that explains heterogeneity of attention allocation to the reference points in adaptive aspirations.
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Sticky Knowledge. Barriers to Knowing in the Firm
TL;DR: Barriers to Knowing in the Firm as discussed by the authors, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, pp. 287-288, is a survey of the barriers to knowing in the firm.