The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects

By Giovanni Gavetti, Henrich R. Greve, Daniel A. Levinthal, William Ocasio. 2012

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, neutral): “Search receives considerable attention in the literature on behavioral strategy (Gavetti, Greve, Levinthal, & Ocasio, 2012).”
Modelling Bounded Rationality in Organizations: Progress and Prospects† (2015, background): “Gavetti et al. (2012) note in their recent review of the literature that there is extensive evidence that organizational change is triggered by performance feedback and that low performance stimulates search (also see Greve, 1998; 2003).”
Effects of an Advancing Tenure on CEO Cognitive Complexity (2020, background): “We study how CEOs’ cognitions (Kaplan 2011, Gavetti et al. 2012) – specifically their cognitive complexity – change during their time in office.”
A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations (2017, methodology): “Further, our theory expands the strategic repertoire of firm responses beyond the problemistic search of behavioral theory of the firm grounded in financial performance (Gavetti et al., 2012) and commonpredictions in the activist literature (Briscoe&Gupta, 2016).”
Decision making and uncertainty: The role of heuristics and experience in assessing a politically hazardous environment (2015, background): “Delving into the origins of decision-makers’ cognitive resources will contribute to the growing literature on strategy’s micro-foundations (Felin and Foss, 2005; Felin et al., 2012; Powell et al., 2011; Gavetti et al., 2012).”
Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review (2019, background): “Extensive research has suggested that organizations rely on two different types of aspirations to make performance evaluations: historical and social aspirations (Bromiley and Harris, 2014; Gavetti et al., 2012).”
Short- and Long-Term Performance Feedback and Absorptive Capacity (2015, result): “…relative to an aspiration level leads to organizational change is in line with most empirical studies that have explored organizational learning from performance feedback (Gavetti et al., 2012; Greve, 2003b), but we also present theory and evidence that make novel contributions to this research.”
Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality (2013, background): “These approaches can broadly be classified as part of evolutionary economics, as well as a more general behavioral program of research in organization science and strategic management (for an overview, see Gavetti et al., 2012).”
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents (2017, neutral): “Our study contributes to behavioral theory (Argote & Greve, 2007; Cyert & March, 1963; Gavetti et al., 2012) in several ways.”