On the Origin of Strategy: Action and Cognition over Time

By Giovanni Gavetti, Jan W. Rivkin. Organ. Sci., 2007

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures (2018, background): “…opportunities (Eckhardt and Shane, 2003; Sarasvathy et al., 2010) and emphasizes the differences between ventures in the same industry (Siggelkow, 2001; Gavetti and Rivkin, 2007), our findings highlight the complementary value of a certain level of standardization in the entrepreneurial process.”
Effects of an Advancing Tenure on CEO Cognitive Complexity (2020, background): “Numerous researchers have studied CEOs’ cognitive content, primarily via the attention-based view (Ocasio 1997, Cho and Hambrick 2006, Gavetti and Rivkin 2007, Eggers and Kaplan 2009), but the idea that CEO cognitive content might change as a function of tenure has not been explored.”
Flexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of Non-Incremental Innovations in Incumbent Firms (2017, neutral): “…literature, a cognitive frame refers to managerial mental maps (Barr et al, 1992), thought structures (Reger, 1990), schemata of interpretation (Gavetti & Rivkin, 2007), strategic frames (Huff, 1982), or more generally, “mental templates that individuals impose on the information environment…”
Strategy and Uncertainty: Resource-Based View, Strategy-Creation View, and the Hybrid Between Them (2021, background): “Analogies often influence and accelerate SC in highly uncertain markets (Gavetti & Rivkin, 2007).”
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival (2017, methodology): “Through an inductive-deductive theory-building process (c.f. Gavetti and Rivkin, 2007), we propose firm reputation as a key strategic construct in these settings.”
Service-based differentiation strategies for business incubators: Exploring external and internal alignment (2012, background): “These research questions are rooted in strategy literature, where strategy scholars advocate the importance of competitive positions (e.g., Gavetti and Rivkin, 2007; Porter, 1980, 1996, 1998; Wen and Chen, 2011).”
Research in Cognition and Strategy: Reflections on Two Decades of Progress and a Look to the Future (2011, neutral): “[8] Gavetti and Levinthal, as well as Rivkin pursued this line of thinking in a series of subsequent papers contrasting ‘cognition’ with rational search and analysis (Gavetti and Rivkin, 2007; Gavetti et al., 2005).”
To Shape or Adapt: Knowledge Problems, Epistemologies, and Strategic Postures under Knightian Uncertainty (2020, background): “Focusing on strategic attitudes, intentionality, and volition will expand current behavioral approaches that emphasize rational, boundedly rational, and cognitive models of decisionmaking (Gavetti & Rivkin, 2007).”
The Cognitive Perspective in Strategy: An Integrative Review (2011, neutral): “…Strategy formulation Bogner & Barr, 2000; Corner, Kinicki, & Keats, 1994; Dutton, 1993; Farjoun & Lai, 1997; Gavetti, Levinthal, & Rivkin, 2005; Gavetti & Rivkin, 2007; George, Chattopadhyay, Sitkin, & Barden, 2006; Ginsberg, 1994; Haleblian & Rajagopalan, 2006; Hsieh, Nickerson, & Zenger,…”
Technology, Identity, and Inertia Through the Lens of "The Digital Photography Company" (2009, background): “For instance, Fujiﬁlm is in the midst of a transition from being an imaging company to being a specialty chemicals company—an identity that enables it to leverage its long history of developing and manufacturing analog ﬁlm (Gavetti et al. 2007).”
New games, new rules: big data and the changing context of strategy (2015, background): “The positioning school has had strong influence on strategy making since it provides its philosophical outlook, logical justification and the guidelines for data collection and use (Gavetti and Rivkin, 2007).”