Research in Cognition and Strategy: Reflections on Two Decades of Progress and a Look to the Future

By Sarah Kaplan. 2011

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Agency, structure, and the dominance of OEMs: Change and stability in the automotive sector (2016, neutral): “…research to date has not focused on industry change or the structural features that affect it.2 Since firms use ideas and imagery to promote their own sectoral vision, one might expect significant mileage from the recent interest in cognition and frames (Eggers and Kaplan, 2013; Kaplan 2011).”
Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities: Individuals, Processes, and Structure (2012, neutral): “This stream of research is vast, cutting across multiple levels of analysis and covering a breath-taking range of concepts (for a recent overview, see Kaplan, 2011).”
Effects of an Advancing Tenure on CEO Cognitive Complexity (2020, positive): “We study how CEOs’ cognitions (Kaplan 2011, Gavetti et al. 2012) – specifically their cognitive complexity – change during their time in office.”
Business models: A challenging agenda (2013, neutral): “Although we know that cognitive categorizations are important for how managers conceive of both their strategies and their competition – as emphasized in Kaplan’s (2011) review – the emphasis on taxonomies means we still do not fully understand how the nature of the categorization may influence the ”
The Family Innovator's Dilemma: How Family Influence Affects the Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies by Incumbent Firms (2013, positive): “A fifth stream of research on organizational adaptation builds on theories of human and organizational cognition (Kaplan, 2011; Kaplan & Tripsas, 2008; March & Simon, 1958) and attributes heterogeneity in incumbents’ adoption behaviors to variations in the rigidity of organizational members’ mental ”
Editorial: Survey Research Design in Supply Chain Management: The Need for Evolution in Our Expectations (2017, positive): “Kaplan (2011) notes that an increased emphasis on the cognitive element in strategy research has significantly improved the field’s understanding.”
Cognition and Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective (2013, neutral): “A substantial portion of the research on managerial cognition has focused on managers’ interpretations of the environment (see Kaplan, 2011; Walsh, 1995, for reviews).”
HR managers’ talent philosophies: prevalence and relationships with perceived talent management practices (2019, neutral): “Different mental models, in turn, indicate that different actual models of TM exist because mental models affect the strategic actions of individual managers (Kaplan, 2011).”
CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities (2013, neutral): “Recent years have seen important advances in introducing a cognitive perspective to organizational studies (e.g., Ocasio, 1997; Kaplan, 2011), including explanations of organizational adaptation to technological shifts (Kaplan and Tripsas, 2008).”
The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, neutral): “Future research may seek to extend the research on human capital for high growth by investigating its potential impact on intermediary strategic outcomes, such as managerial cognition (Kaplan, 2011) or opportunity attention (Shepherd et al, 2016), to provide a more in-depth explanation of how manage”
Decision making and uncertainty: The role of heuristics and experience in assessing a politically hazardous environment (2015, neutral): “Demographic factors, from nationality to age and gender, have been dismissed as weak approximations, at best, of cognitive ability and diversity (Kaplan, 2011; Markoczy, 1997).”
Unlocking the Hidden Value of Concepts: A Cognitive Approach to Business Model Innovation (2015, positive): “This research has offered a distinct explanation of strategy making and strategic change by focusing on the idiosyncratic managerial representations that generate heterogeneity in strategies and environmental enactment (Gavetti et al., 2007; Kaplan, 2011; Rajagopalan and Spreitzer, 1997).”
A Cognitive Perspective on the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability (2015, positive): “This theory has been widely applied in management and organizational theory (Stubbart, 1989; Spicer and Sewell, 2010; Kaplan, 2011) due to it is inherent ability to explain many managerial phenomena.”
Whatever It Takes to Win: Rivalry Increases Unethical Behavior (2016, neutral): “, Cyert & March, 1963; Greve, 1998; Zajac & Bazerman, 1991), and the strategy, structure, and culture of organizations are often determined by a few key individuals in positions of power (Cho & Hambrick, 2006; Hayward & Hambrick, 1997; Kaplan, 2011; Miller & Dröge, 1986; Staw & Sutton, 1992).”
Why We Plan: The Impact of Nascent Entrepreneurs' Cognitive Characteristics and Human Capital on Business Planning (2015, positive): “Our findings also contribute to recent cognition research that aims at understanding the mental models and processes of how cognition affects start-up behaviors that ultimately determine firm performance (Kaplan, 2011).”