How Much to Copy? The Contingent Value of Imitation Capabilities

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A multi-level perspective on innovation ecosystems for path-breaking innovation (2017, unknown): “Strategy scholars have long advocated this approach to learn from the practices of the best performing organizations in the field, or to avoid mistakes made by others (Casadesus-Masanell and Zhu, 2013; Csaszar and Siggelkow, 2010; Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin, 2005).”
Modelling Bounded Rationality in Organizations: Progress and Prospects† (2015, background): “…learning make the structure of the task environment a key feature of the models, and so lend themselves to empirical testing by examining the heterogeneity of agent’s stable sets of choices as a function of the interdependence in their task environments (Csaszar and Siggelkow, 2010).”
The power of imperfect imitation (2013, methodology): “For example, in the evolutionary literature, the extent of adaptability of an evolving system has generally been explained by reference to the quantity of diversity preserved in the population (Campbell, 1965; Csaszar and Siggelkow, 2010; Fang et al. 2010; Holland 1975; March, 1991).”
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models (2013, background): “The literature on imitation is closely related to the broader literature on the transfer of best practices among firms (e.g., Csaszar and Siggelkow 2010).”