A Behavioral Theory of the Firm - 40 Years and Counting: Introduction and Impact

By Linda Argote, Henrich R. Greve. Organ. Sci., 2007

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

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To Merge, Sell, or Liquidate? Socioemotional Wealth, Family Control, and the Choice of Business Exit (2019, neutral): “Behavioral (Argote & Greve, 2007; Cyert & March, 1963), strategy (Burgelman, 1994; Duhaime & Grant, 1984), and entrepreneurship (Dehlen, Zellweger, Kammerlander, & Halter, 2014; DeTienne, McKelvie, & Chandler, 2015; Shepherd, Wiklund, & Haynie, 2009) scholars have long argued that organizations…”
Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy (2012, background): “This paper conforms to recently convergent uses of the term in disciplines such as economics and decision science, for which behavioral refers to the psychological underpinnings of a given phenomenon, where psychological broadly denotes “being about mental processes.””
Artificial Intelligence and Management: The Automation–Augmentation Paradox (2020, background): “The bulk of extant management research has relied on the behavioral assumptions of boundedly rational human actors, who — due to their information-processing limits and cognitive biases — engage in satisficing rather than maximizing behavior (Argote & Greve, 2007; Cyert & March, 1963).”
Disentangling Risk and Change (2015, background): “Cyert and March’s (1963) seminal propositions about organizational change were made without any reference to risk per se (Argote and Greve, 2007), yet most subsequent scholarship in this domain has assumed that risk and change occur together, implying that change is always associated with risk.”
Routines Revisited: Exploring the Capabilities and Practice Perspectives (2011, background): “These standard procedures, rules, and patterns of behavior facilitate more effective organizational decision-making processes as they support problemistic searches, conflict resolution, and adaptation to the broader environment (Cyert & March, 1963 ; Argote & Greve, 2007 ).”
Toward a Behavioral Theory of Boards and Corporate Governance (2009, neutral): “The main feature characterizing the behavior of boards in a behavioral framework is in this respect the limited ability of organizational actors to effectively gather and process information (Cyert and March, 1963; Argote and Greve, 2007).”
A Burden of Responsibility: The Role of Social Approval at the Onset of a Crisis (2014, background): “Research investigating managerial risk preferences and decision making provides support for how endowed social approval influences managers’ choice of response strategies (e.g., Argote & Greve, 2007; Cyert & March 1963; March & Shapira, 1987).”
Topic Modeling in Management Research: Rendering New Theory from Textual Data (2019, background): “Becausemanagerial attention is scarce, it is allocated across a small set of technological problems, particularly at the level of a business unit (Argote & Greve, 2007).”
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects (2012, background): “Its foundational concepts, assumptions, and aspirations have inspired—and continue to inspire—a vibrant community of behaviorally oriented students of organizations and strategy (Argote & Greve, 2007 ; Gavetti, Levinthal, & Ocasio, 2007 ).”
Artificial intelligence and innovation management: A review, framework, and research agenda✰ (2021, background): “The BTF has been acknowledged in organization theory and management as a major foundation for understanding decision making and organizational behavior (Argote and Greve, 2007).”
Entrepreneurial alertness as a pathway to strategic decisions and organizational performance (2018, background): “higher levels of perceived threat can lead to a search for solutions and adaptation (Argote and Greve, 2007).”
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents (2017, positive): “Our study contributes to behavioral theory (Argote & Greve, 2007; Cyert & March, 1963; Gavetti et al., 2012) in several ways.”
A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations (2014, background): “For more than 50 years, the behavioral theory of the firm has been a prominent paradigm in strategic management (Argote and Greve, 2007; Cyert and March [1963] 1992).”