Experiencing the Improbable: Rare Events and Organizational Learning

By Joseph Lampel, Jamal Shamsie, Zur Shapira. Organ. Sci., 2009

316 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, unknown): “Moreover, we contend that this experience-performance relationship varies depending on context-domain similarities between past experiences and current conditions (Argote, 1999; Lampel et al., 2009; March et al., 1991; Parker, 2012).”
Effects of an Advancing Tenure on CEO Cognitive Complexity (2020, background): “Researchers studying the consequences of sudden crises often highlight the difficulty that managers face in integrating the lessons from such events (Lampel et al. 2009).”
The digitalization and public crisis responses of small and medium enterprises: Implications from a COVID-19 survey (2020, background): “First, firms with dynamic capabilities have the potential to sense or understand the crisis in a timely manner (Ballesteros et al. 2017; Lampel et al. 2009; Teece 2007).”
The Fog of Feedback: Ambiguity and Firm Responses to Multiple Aspiration Levels (2015, background): “The latter has provided rich descriptions of behavior following ambiguous and unusual outcomes (Lampel et al., 2009) but has not considered the role that multiple aspiration levels play in creating the ambiguity from which problem solving must proceed.”
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, unknown): “A special issue of Organization Science focused on learning from rare events (Lampel et al. 2009).”
Organizational learning research: Past, present and future (2011, background): “Experience can vary in its novelty (Lampel et al., 2009; March, 1991), ambiguity (Bohn, 1995), or heterogeneity (Haunschild and Sullivan, 2002).”
Once bitten twice shy? Experience managing violent conflict risk and MNC subsidiary-level investment and expansion (2017, background): “Also, the learning that takes place within an organization may be idiosyncratic and/or difficult to codify and transfer (Lampel et al., 2009).”
The economics of COVID-19: initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis (2020, background): “…deals with different areas such as the changed relationship with stakeholders after the crisis (Coombs, 2007; Elsbach, 1994; Pfarrer et al., 2008) or the adaptation and learning effects of companies and survival in crisis situations (Lampel et al., 2009; Veil, 2011; D’Aveni andMacMillan, 1990).”