The selective perception of managers revisited
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Results of a systematic replication of studies by Dearborn and Simon and by Walsh suggest that differences in their conclusions resulted from differences in their experimental procedures. Managers are broader perceivers when they are encouraged to identify more problems. Also, contrary to Walsh's and others' theories, in this replication belief structure did not mediate the relationship between functional experience and selective perception. In addition, predominantly negative relationships were found between areas of experience and perceptions, indicating that functional experience may produce selective imperception as well as selective perception. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Academy of Management Journal
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0001-4273
Year: 1997
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Cognitive underpinnings of institutional persistence and change: A framing perspective
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The predictions of prospect theory, the threat-rigidity hypothesis and institutional theory are integrated to propose the way patterns of institutional persistence and change depend on whether decision makers view environmental shifts as potential opportunities for or threats to gaining legitimacy. It is found that in the event that decision makers face ambiguity in their reading of the environment, they initiate decoupled actions that simultaneously accommodate the predictions of prospect theory and the threat-rigidity hypothesis, highlighting their importance in initiating and sustaining institutional persistence and change.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 2006
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Identifying the ingroup: a closer look at the influence of demographic dissimilarity on employee social identity
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Models based on social identity theory and self-categorization theory without fully incorporating the theoretical and empirical richness is constructed. Further, in order to rectify this omission a model that includes key concepts from these theories that predicts whether employees will identify with a particular demographic category or with their workgroup, or both is presented.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 2004
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