The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects
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DOI：
10.1080/19416520.2012.656841
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
21.2
通讯作者：
Ocasio, William
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作者：
Gavetti, Giovanni;Greve, Henrich R.;Ocasio, William
企业行为理论对组织理论、战略管理和社会科学探究的邻近领域产生了巨大影响。它的中心概念已成为任何关注组织现象的理论和实证工作的基础。与过去对这项工作的评论不同，我们首先较少关注回顾这些概念，而是讨论他们为组织和相关学科的学生创建的新议程。然后，我们解释其议程所隐含的理论承诺，然后追踪和评估受其议程启发的一系列研究问题的进展：认知、绩效反馈、政治、注意力、学习和适应。最后，我们通过考察发展较少的原始想法和值得纳入企业行为理论的领域的现代发展，对该理论进行更广泛的评估。本着企业行为理论的开放系统精神，我们得出的结论是，其议程将继续受益于其最亲密的追随者和相关研究传统的工作。
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm has had an enormous influence on organizational theory, strategic management, and neighboring fields of socio-scientific inquiry. Its central concepts have become foundational to any theoretical and empirical work focussed on organizational phenomena. Unlike past reviews of this work, we start by focusing less on reviewing these concepts than we do on discussing the new agenda they created for students of organizations and related subjects. We then explain the theoretical commitments implied by its agenda before we trace and evaluate progress on a set of research issues inspired by its agenda: cognition, performance feedback, politics, attention, learning, and adaptation. Finally, we offer a broader assessment of the theory by looking both at original ideas that have seen less developments and at modern developments in the field that deserve to be incorporated into the Behavioral Theory of the Firm. In the open-system spirit of the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, we conclude that its agenda will continue to benefit from work both by its closest adherents and by work in related research traditions.