Aspiration Performance and Railroads' Patterns of Learning from Train Wrecks and Crashes

By Joel A. C. Baum, Kristina B. Dahlin. Organ. Sci., 2007

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Learning From Others’ Failures: The Effectiveness of Failure Stories for Managerial Learning (2017, background): “…learning in the financial and aerospace industries suggests that organizations learn more effectively from others’ failure than from others’ success and that knowledge gained from others’ failure experiences depreciates more slowly (Baum & Dahlin, 2007; Kim & Miner, 2007; Madsen & Desai, 2010).”
Disentangling Risk and Change (2015, background): “We also omitted from table 1 studies that do not clearly examine change or risk outcomes, such as those studies predicting growth or accident costs (Baum and Dahlin, 2007; Greve, 2007; Kim and Tsai, 2012).”
Managerial Risk Taking (2016, unknown): “…2010), illegal behavior (Baucus & Near, 1991; Harris & Bromiley, 2007; Madsen, 2013), and organizational change (Arrfelt, Wiseman, & Hult, 2013; Baum & Dahlin, 2007; Greve, 1998; Labianca, Fairbank, Andrevski, & Parzen, 2009; Lant, Milliken, & Batra, 1992; Massini, Lewin, & Greve, 2005; K. M.…”
A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations (2014, background): “…and self measures Instead of aggregating social and self into one aspiration level, several studies have used separate measures of aspirations and attainment discrepancies for social- and self-referents (Baum and Dahlin, 2007; Baum et al., 2005; Greve, 1998, 2003b; Harris and Bromiley, 2007).”
Short- and Long-Term Performance Feedback and Absorptive Capacity (2015, background): “…aspiration levels of short-term performance triggers proximate search that mainly affects realized absorptive capacity.2 Consistent with this view, Baum and Dahlin (2007) examined proximate versus distant learning and found that different performance feedback (nearer to and farther from the…”
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents (2017, unknown): “…extends research on the behavioral theory of the firm (Cyert & March, 1963) and its implications for firm learning and search (Argote & Greve, 2007; Baum & Dahlin, 2007; 2 This distinction between invention and innovation is consistent with prior literature (Ahuja & Lampert, 2001; Fleming &…”
All Aspirations are not Created Equal: The Differential Effects of Historical and Social Aspirations on Acquisition Behavior (2014, background): “Other models posit that managers will attend to two aspiration levels separately and do not combine historical and social influences into a single aspiration level (e.g., Baum & Dahlin, 2007; Baum et al., 2005; Chen & Miller, 2007; Greve, 1998; Harris & Bromiley, 2007).”
Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review (2019, background): “Specifically, performance relative to historical aspirations helps reveal the performance trend of a specific organization (Baum and Dahlin, 2007), while performance relative to social aspirations helps reveal relative performance against peers (Kim et al.”