The Ambiguities of Experience

By James G. March. 2010

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Accounting, decisions and promises (2016, background): “Even when effectuation seems to happen it is not obvious whether the tinkering produced the desired effect orwhether thiswas co-produced by other things (March, 2010; Messner, 2009).”
Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, unknown): “We attribute this learning barrier to incorrect inferences made by serial entrepreneurs from previous experiences (Levitt and March, 1988; March, 2010; Novick, 1988).”
Experiential Learning Theory as a Guide for Experiential Educators in Higher Education (2022, background): “Their contributions span over one hundred years, beginning at the end of the nineteenth century with William James, John Dewey, and Mary Parker Follett, and ending at the end of the twentieth century with the deaths of Carl Rogers and Paulo Freire.”
The Fog of Feedback: Ambiguity and Firm Responses to Multiple Aspiration Levels (2015, background): “, March and Olsen, 1976), and are united in common observations that ambiguities in the relationships among outcomes, aspirations, and actions exist (Levinthal and Rerup, 2006; March, 2010).”
How culture influences the way entrepreneurs deal with uncertainty in inter-organizational relationships: The case of returnee versus local entrepreneurs in China (2016, background): “In addressing effect uncertainty, entrepreneurs may derive a causal explanation and respond with a concrete solution to tackle the uncertainty, as Western cultures always strive to reduce uncertainty and ambiguity (March, 2010).”
Chasing a Moving Target: Exploitation and Exploration in Dynamic Environments (2012, methodology): “In the management literature, March (1991) originally formulated his analysis in terms of a specific form of a genetic algorithm;1 subsequently, he reformulated his discussion of learning in terms of the bandit model (Denrell and March, 2001; March 1996, 2003, 2010).”
Organizational learning research: Past, present and future (2011, background): “These benefits include enabling us: to specify when experience has positive or negative effects on organizational processes and outcomes (see March, 2010), to understand the relationships among different types of experience, and to design experience to promote organizational learning.”
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, unknown): “Thus, the analysis enables us to determine when experience is a good " teacher " and when it is not (March, 2010).”
When the Claim Hits: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bounded Rational Learning (2013, unknown): “…to mind.22 In the absence of highly ‘available’ information decision-makers thereby often fail to consider low-probability events fully until lightning strikes.23 As hinted to above, this implies that while ‘muddling through’ and ‘satisficing’ may often be useful for bounded 16 March 2010.”