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Thinking in time: the uses of history for decision-makers
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This article is published in International Affairs.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 113 citations till now.read more
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Evolving Interpretations as a Change Unfolds: How Managers Construe Key Organizational Events
TL;DR: This paper developed a model of how managers construe organizational events as a change unfolds, based on interviews with 40 managers, and found that the model, built from in-depth interviews with managers, suggests that int...
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Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the meaning of shared power in a shared-power setting and the process of policy entrepreneurship in the context of team and organizational leadership, and propose a proposal that can win in Arenas and an effective problem definition to guide action.
Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the mental processes especially important to firm performance that strategic leaders can reliably manage and propose a unified model of the human mind that centers on associative processes.
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Assessing political group dynamics : a test of the groupthink model
TL;DR: This article used the Group Dynamics Q sort (GDQS) to explore the empirical underpinnings and theoretical logic of the groupthink model and found that neither group cohesiveness nor situational stress emerged as independent predictors of symptoms of groupthink.
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Coping with the future: Developing organizational foresightfulness
Haridimos Tsoukas,Jill Shepherd +1 more
TL;DR: In a celebrated lecture given at the Harvard Business School in 1931, Alfred North Whitehead identified "foresight" as the crucial feature of the competent business mind and pointed out that business organizations need to cultivate foresight in order to cope with the relentless change that modernity generates.
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Evolving Interpretations as a Change Unfolds: How Managers Construe Key Organizational Events
TL;DR: This paper developed a model of how managers construe organizational events as a change unfolds, based on interviews with 40 managers, and found that the model, built from in-depth interviews with managers, suggests that int...
Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the mental processes especially important to firm performance that strategic leaders can reliably manage and propose a unified model of the human mind that centers on associative processes.
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A loss of faith: the sources of reduced political legitimacy for the American medical profession.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data collected in 1995 to compare attitudes of the American public and policy elites toward medical authority and concluded that elites are more hostile to professional authority than is the public.
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The Inherent Limits of Organizational Structure and the Unfulfilled Role of Hierarchy: Lessons from a Near-War
TL;DR: This paper articulates a potential raison d'etre for hierarchy, and considers the conditions that allow it to play its role to the full, and extends Cyert and March's work by considering the role of organizational structure and hierarchy in shaping search behavior and defining how problems are framed.
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Assessing political group dynamics : a test of the groupthink model
TL;DR: This article used the Group Dynamics Q sort (GDQS) to explore the empirical underpinnings and theoretical logic of the groupthink model and found that neither group cohesiveness nor situational stress emerged as independent predictors of symptoms of groupthink.