Capabilities, cognition, and inertia: evidence from digital imaging

By Mary Tripsas, Giovanni Gavetti. 2000

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Subfields: Strategy and Management

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1. J. Eggers
2. N. J. Foss
3. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
4. Constance E. Helfat
5. K. Meyer
6. Sarah Kaplan
7. Rajshree Agarwal
8. Giovanni Gavetti

Citations in the corpus

• The clock is ticking! Executive temporal depth, industry velocity, and competitive aggressiveness (2016, background): “Tripsas and Gavetti (2000) found that cumulative past experiences frequently constrained executives’ timely competitive responses in the fast changing digital photography industry.”
• Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, neutral): “Organizations can draw inappropriate inferences from experience and learn the wrong thing (Zollo, in press; Tripsas & Gavetti, 2000).”
• Using Theory Elaboration to Make Theoretical Advancements (2017, methodology): “Vertical contrasting Contrasting observations across different levels of analysis Tripsas and Gavetti (2000) Improving logical and empirical adequacy”
• Corporate effects and dynamic managerial capabilities (2003, background): “ Tripsas and Gavetti (2000) have documented the difficulty that Polaroid experienced in its new digital imaging business due to an inappropriate mental model held by top management.”
• Entrepreneurship in global innovation ecosystems (2011, background): “Our discussion adds to growing research on the strategic choices and actions of new firms and how they determine firm success and failure (Baker and Nelson 2005; Brown and Eisenhardt 1997; Catmull 2008; Luksha 2008; Tripsas and Gavetti 2000 ).”
• The Path of Most Persistence: An Evolutionary Perspective on Path Dependence and Dynamic Capabilities (2011, background): “However, shifting environmental conditions may rapidly transform path-dependent capabilities into underperforming, cash-consuming assets (Tripsas & Gavetti, 2000).”
• Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, positive): “Generalization in similar contexts reduces the negative effects of behavioral persistence (Mazur, 1994; Tripsas and Gavetti, 2000).”
• The incumbent discount: Stock market categories and response to radical technological change (2007, background): “Managers’ cognitive limitations can further hamper a firm’s response to new technologies ( Tripsas & Gavetti, 2000 ).”
• Dynamic Managerial Capabilities (2015, background): “Although prominent studies have called attention to the negative impact of managerial cognitive rigidities on strategic change (e.g., Tripsas & Gavetti, 2000), our review of the broader literature found substantial evidence to the contrary.”