Strategy making in novel and complex worlds: the power of analogy

By Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthal, Jan W. Rivkin. 2005

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Subfields: Safety Research, Strategy and Management

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Optimal Structure, Market Dynamism, and the Strategy of Simple Rules (2009, background): “428/ASQ, September 2009”
Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “Csaszar, 2018; Gavetti & Levinthal, 2000) or heuristics (Gavetti et al., 2005).”
A multi-level perspective on innovation ecosystems for path-breaking innovation (2017, neutral): “The synthesis of these antagonistic forces informs subsequent attempts to align the ecosystem, giving rise to new experiments around a different EVP and/or EM (Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin, 2008).”
On the Origin of Strategy: Action and Cognition over Time (2007, background): “Recent work has tried to couple the cross-sectional strength of the positioning school with the longitudinal power of evolutionary economics by relaxing the schools' extreme assumptions about rationality and plasticity (e.g., Ghemawat and Levinthal 2000, Gavetti et al. 2005).”
The Differential Impact of Knowledge Depth and Knowledge Breadth on Creativity over Individual Careers (2017, background): “Moreover, diverse knowledge can stimulate individuals to reconfigure knowledge schemas and domains, loosening up their internal structure and increasing flexibility (Gavetti et al., 2005; Mumford & Gustafson, 1988).”
The Architecture and Design of Organizational Capabilities (2006, positive): “…within their own (narrow) purview and also dynamically limit the aspects of the environment that they “let in.” In other words, experience often shapes, reinforces, and sustains frames and analogies (Gavetti et al., 2005), which turn into rigidities over time (Leonard-Barton, 1992; Markides, 1999).”
International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience through Comparative Reasoning Approaches (2014, background): “Page 25 of 45 over depth when managers pay attention to actual similarities and differences between industries (Gavetti et al., 2005).”
Strategic thinking and decision making: literature review (2011, background): “This is because individuals fall back on past learning and experience in a variety of business settings ( Gavetti et al. , 2005”
The Relationship Between Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Stakeholder Pressure and Corporate Sustainability Performance (2013, neutral): “situations, stakeholder claims may even pose conflicting pressures on organizations (Gavetti et al. 2005).”