Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search

By Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthal. 2000

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design (2003, neutral): “…management scholars have used the procedure in recent years to generate payoff functions that can be employed to examine organizational search (Levinthal 1997; Gavetti and Levinthal 2000; Ghemawat and Levinthal 2000; Rivkin 2000; Marengo , et al. 2000; McKelvey 1999, and references therein).”
The endogenous origins of experience, routines, and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus (2010, background): “Routines, then, ‘reflect experiential wisdom in that they are the outcome of trial and error learning and the selection and retention of past behaviors’ (Gavetti and Levinthal, 2000: 113, emphasis added).”
Schumpeter, Winter, and the sources of novelty (2006, background): “Some of the relevant properties of experiential learning have been documented in recent work (Gavetti and Levinthal, 2000; Denrell and March, 2001; Denrell, 2005).”
Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability (2008, background): “Changes in perceived interdependence can happen through either experiential search or cognitive search (Gavetti and Levinthal, 2000).”
Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search (2010, background): “While a bulk of the problems firms face may be solved through a combination of internal experienced-based local (March 1991), cognitive (Gavetti and Levinthal 2000) and analogical (Gavetti et al. 2005) search processes, there may still remain some problems that for a variety of reasons (lack of…”
The Theory-Based View: Economic Actors as Theorists (2017, neutral): “4 of strategy, providing insights into how decision-making might be productively de-biased, and how heuristics and simple rules or cognitive association may shape strategy making in uncertain environments (e.g., Artinger et al., 2015; Bingham and Eisenhardt, 2011; Gavetti and Levinthal, 2000; Powell”
Two Faces of Search: Alternative Generation and Alternative Evaluation (2007, background): “Keywords organizational search, bounded rationality, organizational decision making Disciplines Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Marketing This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/mgmt_papers/138 Two Faces of Search: Alternative Generati”
Internationalising in small, incremental or larger steps? (2007, background): “the company’s knowledge base (Levinthal, 1997; Gavetti and Levinthal, 2000) reduce short-term performance but enhance learning and the performance of future expansions.”
Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship Development: A Real Options Perspective (2007, background): “Along these lines, Gavetti and Levinthal (2000) also emphasize that if low-outcome draws can be costlessly discarded, then greater variance in the sample, holding the mean constant , increases the expected value of those that are adopted.”
DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND THE EMERGENCE OF INTRAINDUSTRY DIFFERENTIAL FIRM PERFORMANCE: INSIGHTS FROM A SIMULATION STUDY (2003, background): “Gavetti and Levinthal (2000), for example, demonstrate that experiential (i.e., backward-looking) search coupled with cognitive (i.e., forward-looking) search can outperform purely experiential search.”
Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity (2007, background): “They may even be able to move organizations beyond responding to performance feedback to taking proactive actions based on anticipated contingencies (Gavetti and Levinthal, 2000; Tsoukas and Shepherd, 2004).”