Cognition, Capabilities, and Incentives: Assessing Firm Response to the Fiber-Optic Revolution

By Sarah Kaplan. 2008

465 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/209a76ea65a26f66b5c95671172415dd7ce1349b

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management Science and Operations Research

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Strategic Cognition and Issue Salience: Toward an Explanation of Firm Responsiveness to Stakeholder Concerns (2013, methodology): “other methods focused on analyzing firm communication to determine managerial cognitive orientation (Cho & Hambrick, 2006; Kaplan, 2008).”
Social, Behavioral, and Cognitive Influences on Upper Echelons During Strategy Process (2016, background): “…examined in terms of their perceptions, attention, amount of information processed, or metacognitive experience, significantly influence a variety of firm outcomes including firm performance, flexibility, corporate entrepreneurship, and decision making (e.g., Kaplan, 2008; Mitchell et al., 2011).”
Information, Attention, and Decision Making (2015, background): “Recent studies have begun to develop new empirical approaches to analyzing the content of information put out by firms, including CEOs‘ public statements and letters to shareholders (e.g., Nadkarni and Chen 2014; Kaplan, 2008).”
The Process of Schema Emergence: Assimilation, Deconstruction, Unitization and the Plurality of Analogies (2013, methodology): “These observations are consistent with Kaplan and Tripsas’ (2008) prediction about the interplay between cognitive structures and cognitive development.”
Research in Cognition and Strategy: Reflections on Two Decades of Progress and a Look to the Future (2011, unknown): “Eggers and I (Eggers and Kaplan, 2009; Kaplan, 2008b) explored these dynamics in larger samples to examine how CEO cognition interacts with organizational capabilities and incentives in shaping strategic outcomes.”
Cognition and Renewal: Comparing CEO and Organizational Effects on Incumbent Adaptation to Technical Change (2009, background): “Note that these results run counter to findings in Kaplan (2008) that CEO attention and industry-related organizational incentives are substitutes when driving investments in technical capability building (i.e., patenting).”
Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals (2012, background): “Since capabilities may influence both managerial cognition as well as ability to accomplish aspirations, scholars in this area should consider the cognition–capabilities debate (e.g., S. Kaplan, 2008).”
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents (2017, unknown): “…in adapting to radical inventions by others, such as complementary assets (Rothaermel, 2001; Rothaermel & Hill, 2005; Sosa, 2009, 2011; Taylor & Helfat, 2009; Tripsas, 1997), cognition (Eggers & Kaplan, 2009; Kaplan, 2008; Nadkarni & Barr, 2008), and external stakeholders (Benner, 2007, 2010).”
Technology, Identity, and Inertia Through the Lens of "The Digital Photography Company" (2009, background): “…success under one technological regime become inertial forces, limiting adaptive ﬂexibility and driving suboptimal outcomes in a different environment (Benner and Tushman 2002, Christensen and Bower 1996, Henderson and Clark 1990, Kaplan 2008, Tripsas and Gavetti 2000, Tushman and Anderson 1986).”
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities (2015, background): “In addition, Kaplan (2008) found that both managerial human capital and cognition influenced firms’ investments in new technical domains, positioning the firms to adapt to changing markets.”
Public-Private Institutions as Catalysts of Upgrading in Emerging Market Societies (2009, background): “Indeed, the relative significance of both upgrading intent and education supports the increasingly well established work in strategy showing that knowledge stock and perceived demand impact the likelihood that firms will upgrade products (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Kaplan, 2008).”
Organizational Linkages for Surviving Technological Change: Complementary Assets, Middle Management, and Ambidexterity (2009, unknown): “1 Inclusion of factors such as social and cognitive influences provides a more comprehensive explanation for observed behavior during technological transitions (Kaplan 2008).”
Incumbent Adaptation to Technological Change: The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Heterogeneous Incumbent Response (2018, unknown): “…influenced their firms’ patenting behavior in the pharmaceutical industry (Kaplan, Murray, & Henderson, 2003) and in the communications industry (Kaplan, 2008a)—firms with managers who paid more attention to the new technologies were more likely to begin investing in the new technologies.”
Toward a Configurational Perspective on the CEO (2016, background): “Higher paid CEOs are found to systematically perform better, leading external parties to question whether CEOs are excessively compensated (e.g., Kaplan, 2008).”
Technology-Market Combinations and the Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Investigation of the Opportunity-Individual Nexus (2012, background): “…and “hypercompetition,” management scholars have pointed to the importance of entrepreneurial action as a means by which organizations can innovate (Kaplan, 2008; Puranam, Singh, & Zollo, 2006), grow (Dencker, Gruber, & Shah, 2009; Tzabar, 2009), and/or renew themselves (Agarwal & Helfat, 2009;…”
Psychological foundations of dynamic capabilities: Reflexion and reflection in strategic management (2009, background): “…learning, adaptation and performance (e.g., Adner and Helfat, 2003; Alvarez and Busenitz, 2001; Amit and Schoemaker, 1993; Gavetti, 2005; Helfat et al., 2007; Kaplan, 2008; Lane, Koka, and Pathak, 2006; Teece et al., 1997; Tripsas and Gavetti, 2000; Winter, 2000; Zollo and Winter, 2002).”