An Attention-Based Theory of Strategy Formulation: Linking Micro- and Macroperspectives in Strategy Processes

By William Ocasio, John Joseph. 2005

244 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Strategy and Management

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In Strategy and Management

1. O. Hawn
2. Julian Birkinshaw
3. Cyril Bouquet
4. A. Morrison
5. Vibha Gaba
6. K. Mole
7. John Joseph
8. Andy Lockett

Citations in the corpus

• Willing and Able: A General Model of Organizational Responses to Normative Pressures (2017, background): “First, given that managerial attention is limited, some issues may be evaluated as more or less salient than others by decision-makers (Ocasio & Joseph, 2005).”
• Revitalizing Entrepreneurship: The Search for New Research Opportunities (2011, unknown): “…contributes to research on corporate entrepreneurship; it explains what drives individuals to try to gather support for an entrepreneurial initiative by bringing it to the attention of others in the organization so that it is approved and implemented (Kuratko et al., 2005; Ocasio and Joseph, 2005).”
• Disentangling the antecedents of ambidexterity: Exploration and exploitation (2018, background): “Such firm-level attention structures may include culture, resources and social relationships (Ocasio and Joseph, 2005).”
• Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “Those aspects that are frequently activated through interactions become more broadly diffused overtime— even as other aspects remain unattended (Ocasio & Joseph, 2005).13 Throughout this attention selection process, information may be reinterpreted (Ocasio et al., 2015).”
• Integrating agency and resource dependence theory: Firm profitability, industry regulation, and board task performance (2013, background): “Ocasio indicates that boards’ engagement into the different tasks depends on the contextual conditions boards and organizations are embedded into (Ocasio & Joseph, 2005), thus sparking a number of studies using a contingency approach to boards (Filatotchev & Nakajima, 2010).”
• International attention and multinational enterprise performance (2008, methodology): “Our paper builds upon this more behavioral, practice-oriented view of attention (Ocasio, 1997; Ocasio & Joseph, 2005), and extends it in three ways.”