Showing papers by "Justin J. P. Jansen published in 2017"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a synergistic perspective on TMT diversity and examined how two types of diversity (functional and age diversity) affect the achievement of organizational ambidexterity, and identified shared responsibility and CEO cognitive trust as important contingencies that may complement the effects of diversity within TMTs in terms of resolving potential conflicts and managing tensions between exploration and exploitation effectively.
62 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that managers' regulatory focus affects their willingness to experiment with a wide range of alternatives and to deviate from existing best practices, and that the promotion focus of managers heightens their exploration orientation.
Abstract: We develop a psychological perspective on managers’ exploration orientation. Our study suggests that the regulatory focus of managers may in different ways, impact their orientation toward search, risk-taking, and experimentation. Moreover, we argue that these relationships are contingent not only on the extent to which the organizational context fits with the motivational disposition of managers, but also on the complexity of decision-making. Using an experimental setting, we find that managers’ regulatory focus affects their willingness to experiment with a wide range of alternatives and to deviate from existing best practices. Moreover, the promotion focus of managers heightens their exploration orientation in an organizational context with promotion-focused cues in highly complex decision-making. This study has important implications for our understanding of managers’ exploration orientation under conditions of complexity.
59 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the antecedents and consequences of inventions that balance new and existing knowledge using patent data from the semiconductor industry and find that balanced inventions that combine a firm's existing knowledge with new knowledge are of higher quality than inventions that are either over-exploratory or overexploitative.
43 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a behavioral perspective on the impact of reputation on the investment decisions of a firm is developed, based on self-regulatory focus and negative recommendations of securities analysts.
16 citations