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Bringing Bounded Rationality Back in: a Behavioral Approach to Incentive Systems, Organizational Design, and Social Interactions in Organizations
No full textThe Principal's Theory of Mind: The Role of Mentalizing for Reward Design and Management in Principal-Agent Relations (with Foss, N.J.). Motivating Knowledge Sharing when Rewards are Ambiguous: the Role of Complementary Motivators (with Foss, N. J., Pedersen, T., and Reinholt, M.). Physical Separation in the Workplace: Separation Cues, Sensemaking,
and Behavioral Responses (with Foss, N. J., and Christensen, P. H.). Organizational Design and the Credibility of Delegated Decision Rights (with Foss, K., and Foss, N. J.). Network Size and Prosocial Behavior: Taking Bounded Rationality into Account (with Foss, N. J., and Pedersen, T.). Brokerage and Creativity: A Bounded Rationality Perspective (with Pedersen, T.).The Principal's Theory of Mind: The Role of Mentalizing for Reward Design and Management in Principal-Agent Relations (with Foss, N.J.). Motivating Knowledge Sharing when Rewards are Ambiguous: the Role of Complementary Motivators (with Foss, N. J., Pedersen, T., and Reinholt, M.). Physical Separation in the Workplace: Separation Cues, Sensemaking,
and Behavioral Responses (with Foss, N. J., and Christensen, P. H.). Organizational Design and the Credibility of Delegated Decision Rights (with Foss, K., and Foss, N. J.). Network Size and Prosocial Behavior: Taking Bounded Rationality into Account (with Foss, N. J., and Pedersen, T.). Brokerage and Creativity: A Bounded Rationality Perspective (with Pedersen, T.).LUISS PhD Thesi
Expand bounded rationality, but don't throw opportunism out of the car and under the bus: a reply to Lumineau and Verbeke
No full textResponse to Lumineau and Verbeke's critique of Foss & Weber
Nicolai J. Foss recommends “Economics and Identity” by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton
No full textSocial identity has entered the discourse of social scientists, pundits, and politicians to an extent that no one could have anticipated only about a decade ago. Thus, recent electoral events have strongly pointed to the importance of identity
Problem-Formulation and Problem-Solving in Self-Organized Communities: How Modes of Communication Shape Project Behaviors In the Free Open-Source Software Community
No full textBuilding on the problem-solving perspective, we study behaviors related to projects and the communication-based antecedents of such behaviors in the free open-source software (FOSS) community. We examine two kinds of problem/project-behaviors: Individuals can set up projects around the formulation of new problems or join existing projects and define and/or work on subproblems within an existing problem. The choice between these two behaviors is influenced by the mode of communication. A communication mode with little a priori structure is the best mode for communicating about new problems (i.e., formulating a problem); empirically, it is associated with project launching behaviors. In contrast, more structured communication fits subproblems better and is related to project joining behaviors. Our hypotheses derive support from data from the FOSS community
Microfoundations in strategy research
No full textThe basic motivation for the microfoundations research agenda in strategy has been to decompose macro-level constructs in terms of the actions and interactions of lower level organizational members, understand how firm-lev el performance emerge from the interaction of these members, and how relations between macro variables are mediated by micro actions and interactions (see Felin, Foss & Ployhart , 2015). Specifically, microfoundation research has focused on anchoring higher-level concepts like dynamic capabilities, routines and social capital on lower levels. Typical questions rais ed concern understanding dynamic capabilities in terms of managerial cognition, the motivational antecedents of human capital-based competitive advantage, how individual action and interaction constitute the capabilities that drive performance, how routines emerge from such individual action and interaction, etc
Austrian economics: a tale of lost opportunities
No full textThis is a, somewhat indirect, rejoinder to Boettke (2019, this volume, Chapter 1). Doing Austrian economics is low prestige: Austrian economics does not get published in high-prestige journals and Austrian economists are not employed by top universities. And yet, up until World War II Austrian economics was an important part of the international economics community. The author argues that Austrian economists made several theoretical innovations that could have placed them at the frontier of research in economics, and present a brief coun-terfactual history of a thriving Austrian economics based on those innovations. However, the actual history of the Austrian School is quite different. A par-ticularly decisive factor that has made Austrian economics a fringe movement was the rejection of formal methods in theory and empirics. The author argues that Austrian economics is basically dying out as a voice in the conversation of modern economists
Problem-formulation and problem-solving in self-organized communities: How modes of communication shape project behaviors in the free open-source software community
No full textBuilding on the problem-solving perspective, we study behaviors related to projects and the communication-based antecedents of such behaviors in the free open-source software (FOSS) community. We examine two kinds of problem/project-behaviors: Individuals can set up projects around the formulation of new problems or join existing projects and define and/or work on subproblems within an existing problem. The choice between these two behaviors is influenced by the mode of communication. A communication mode with little a priori structure is the best mode for communicating about new problems (i.e., formulating a problem); empirically, it is associated with project launching behaviors. In contrast, more structured communication fits subproblems better and is related to project joining behaviors. Our hypotheses derive support from data from the FOSS community.Research summary: Building on the problem-solving perspective, we study behaviors related to projects and the communication-based antecedents of such behaviors in the free open-source software (FOSS) community. We examine two kinds of problem/project-behaviors: Individuals can set up projects around the formulation of new problems or join existing projects and define and/or work on subproblems within an existing problem. The choice between these two behaviors is influenced by the mode of communication. A communication mode with little a priori structure is the best mode for communicating about new problems (i.e., formulating a problem); empirically, it is associated with project launching behaviors. In contrast, more structured communication fits subproblems better and is related to project joining behaviors. Our hypotheses derive support from data from the FOSS community.Managerial summary: We study how the way in which individuals communicate influence the project-behaviors they engage in. We find that relatively unstructured communication is associated with the setting up new projects, while communication that is structured around an artifact is associated with joining projects. Our findings hold implications for understanding how management may influence project behaviors and problem-solving: Firms that need to concentrate on more incremental problem-solving efforts (e.g., because a sufficient number of attractive problems have already been defined) should create environments in which interaction is undertaken mainly via artifacts. On the other hand, if firms seek to generate new problems (e.g., new strategic opportunities), they should create environments in which open-ended, verbal conversation is relatively more important than artifact-based communication. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Business model innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: the supporting role of organizational design
No full textThe pharmaceutical industry has undergone massive architectural change over the last two decades. We describe how this affected the business models of companies, focusing our analysis of three very different approaches to business model innovation in Danish pharmaceutical companies
Business models and business model innovation: bringing organization into the discussion
No full textWe discuss the evolution of business model innovation research, and point out that attention to organizational design is missing from the literature. We argue that organizational design is an integral part of understanding the nature of business models as well as how and why they change, for example, through business model innovatio
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