Reconsidering the Trade-off Between Expertise and Flexibility: a Cognitive Entrenchment Perspective

By Erik Dane. 2010

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, Social Psychology

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Fostering team creativity: perspective taking as key to unlocking diversity's potential. (2010, background): “Whereas research on cognitive entrenchment (Dane, 2010) suggests that growing expertise may come at the expense of reduced flexibility, others argue that effective perspective taking requires clear, identifiable per- Th is d oc um en t i s c op yr ig ht ed b y th e A m er ic an P sy ch ol og ic al…”
Fixation and creativity in concept development: the attitudes and practices of expert designers (2015, background): “…This can be applied not just to individual psychological phenomena, but also to accounts of how ideas become ‘entrenched’ in organisations, where social factors such as hierarchy, expectations, norms, status, risk, incentives and leadership are influential (Dane, 2010: p. 585; Stempfle, 2011).”
Performance Adaptation (2014, background): “…2010; Stokes et al., 2010; Zaccaro, Banks, Kiechel-Koles, Kemp, & Bader, 2009), the individual differences of job experience, cognitive ability, and personality predispose a person to obtain more flexible expertise that is needed to succeed in adaptive situations (see Dane, 2010; holyoak, 1991).”
Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains* (2018, background): “This striking demonstration of the negative impact of expertise on creativity has since been replicated and extended in a large number of studies (see Bilalić, McLeod, and Gobet, 2008; Dane, 2010).”
The Differential Impact of Knowledge Depth and Knowledge Breadth on Creativity over Individual Careers (2017, background): “Consequently, those early in their careers, with their relatively flexible knowledge structures, should acquire deep knowledge to enhance the number of recombination possibilities (Dane, 2010; Mumford, Blair, Dailey, Leritz, & Osburn, 2006; Perry-Smith & Shalley, 2003; Taylor & Greve, 2006) and thus”
Jack of all, master of all? CEO generalist experience and firm performance (2019, background): “…develops with a longer tenure is indirectly supported by findings that show that repeated and consistent interactions with domain stimuli provide avenues for domain-specific learning, infuse tacit knowledge (Reber, 1989) and reduce cognitive entrenchment in past knowledge structures (Dane, 2010).”
The Process of Schema Emergence: Assimilation, Deconstruction, Unitization and the Plurality of Analogies (2013, background): “A primary agenda for firm research on schema is examining their impact (Schminke et al., 1997), change (Elsbach et. al., 20007) or structural attributes such as size, complexity or focus (Dane, 2010; Nadkarni & Narayanan, 2007).”
Where to Look? Creative Self-Efficacy, Knowledge Retrieval, and Incremental and Radical Creativity (2014, background): “This was done following research suggesting that increased experience in a domain reduces one’s ability to generate ideas flexibly (Dane, 2010) or radically (Audia & Goncalo, 2007) in that domain.”
Understanding The Dual Nature of Ambivalence: Why and When Ambivalence Leads to Good and Bad Outcomes (2017, unknown): “the core of adaptive action are especially critical (Dane, 2010), and thus where ambivalence – adding positive thoughts and emotions to the negative – may be particularly beneficial.”
MINDFULNESS AT WORK (2011, background): “Dane (2010) argued that these intuitions may promote task performance when expertise is high.”
Strategy and Uncertainty: Resource-Based View, Strategy-Creation View, and the Hybrid Between Them (2021, background): “This work suggests that expertise can actually be a source of cognitive inertia (not flexibility), leading to less frequent updating of mental models (Furr, Cavarretta, & Garg, 2012) or even cognitive entrenchment (Dane, 2010).”
Which Problems to Solve? Online Knowledge Sharing and Attention Allocation in Organizations (2014, background): “…generate greater cognitive load than narrow problems because they are likely to be inherently more difficult, controlling for expertise matching, since they span multiple domains of expertise, and thus require that providers construct and utilize more complex schemas to process them (Dane, 2010).”
Balancing on the Creative Highwire (2016, background): “In contrast, because managers typically enter the creative process at the evaluation stage, they are likely to engage in convergent thinking without first engaging in divergent thinking and thus may be more anchored by their domain knowledge (Basadur, Runco, and Vega, 2000; Dane, 2010).”
On Becoming an Experiential Educator (2014, result): “…and those low in learning flexibility did preferred the expert role are consistent with previous research indicating that concrete learners vary their learning style by context (Sharma & Kolb, 2010) and that experts have a tendency to become “cognitively entrenched”(Dane, 2010) and less flexible.”
Moving Beyond Templates: A Bricolage Approach to Conducting Trustworthy Qualitative Research (2020, background): “In contrast, the constant repetition of cognitive structures such as methodological templates can entrench us (for a summary, see Dane, 2010).”
From Creativity to Innovation: The Social Network Drivers of the Four Phases of the Idea Journey (2017, background): “While complex, non-redundant knowledge is generally thought to facilitate the generation of new ideas (Granovetter, 1973; Taylor & Greve, 2006), creativity theorists suggest that it is not the accumulation of new knowledge that matters, but rather its effect on cognitive structures in the mind (Amab”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, background): “Indeed, some studies suggest that knowledge and experience can inhibit creativity because they constrain the consideration set to only familiar options (Bilalić et al. 2008; Dane 2010).”