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Designing semi-confusing information systems for organizations in changing environments

Bo Hedberg, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1978 - 
- Vol. 3, Iss: 1, pp 149-173
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Organizations have many stabilizers but quite often lack proper destabilizers, and many grow too rigid and insensitive to environmental changes.
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Organizations have many stabilizers but quite often lack proper destabilizers. They establish fixed repertoires of behavior programs over time, and many grow too rigid and insensitive to environmental changes. Drifting into changing environments, they react with delayed and improper responses.

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The myopia of learning

Daniel A. Levinthal, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1993 - 
TL;DR: The imperfections of learning are not so great as to require abandoning attempts to improve the learning capabilities of organizations, but that those imperfections suggest a certain conservatism in expectations.

Myopia of learning

Daniel A. Levinthal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the ways organizations approach these problems through simplification and specialization and how those approaches contribute to three forms of learning myopia, the tendency to overlook distant times, distant places, and failures, and identify some ways in which organizations sustain exploration in the face of a tendency to overinvest in exploitation.
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The archeology of accounting systems

Anthony G. Hopwood
- 01 Jan 1987 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and evaluated existing perspectives on accounting change and discussed three examples of accounting change, and a number of theoretical issues relating to the understanding of accounting process of change are examined.
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Managerial Response to Changing Environments: Perspectives on Problem Sensing from Social Cognition.

Sara Kiesler, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1982 - 
TL;DR: The authors characterizes managerial problem sensing, a necessary precondition for managerial activity directed toward organizational adaptation, as composed of noticing, interpreting, and incorporating stimuli, and reviews the constituent social cognition processes that make certain kinds of problem-sensing behavior, including errors, relatively likely to occur.
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The role of management control systems in creating competitive advantage: New perspectives

Robert Simons
- 01 Jan 1990 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the power of management control systems in the strategy formulation process is examined in two competing firms to illustrate how top managers use formal systems to guide the emergence of new strategies and ensure continuing competitive advantage.
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Organizations in Action

James D. Thompson
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The psychology of personal constructs

George A. Kelly
TL;DR: In this paper, a reissue of George Kelly's classic work Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is presented. And the implications of PCP for clinical practice are discussed. But the authors do not discuss the authorship of the book.
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm

Richard M. Cyert, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of basic concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and present a specific price and output model for a specific type of products. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two concepts.
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The Management of Innovation

Tom Burns, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1961 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine common new-industry responses to planning needs, such as the transfer of technical staff to the sales force and assignment of user needs research to research and development staff.
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm

Richard M. Cyert, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1963 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors advocate a theory based on empirical observation of actual firm decision-making, which provides a theory of decision making within business organizations, contrary to the economic theory of the firm, which sees firms as profit-maximizing entities.