Technological innovation : oversights and foresights /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
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| Description: | xv, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Technological innovations. Decision making. Decision making. Technological innovations. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2723622 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Technological Learning, Oversights and Foresights: An Overview Raghu Garud
- Part II. Learning to Flip Coins
- 2. On Flipping Coins and Making Technology Choices
- Luck as an explanation of technological foresight and oversight
- 3. Technological Choices and the Inevitability of Errors Raghu Garud
- 4. Rational Entrepreneurs or Optimistic Martyrs?
- Some considerations on technological regimes, industrial dynamics, and the evolutionary role of decision biases Giovanni Dosi
- Part III. Tailoring Fits
- 5. Cognition and Capabilities
- Opportunities seized and missed in the history of the computer industry
- 6. Changing the Game of Corporate Research: Learning to think in the fog of reality
- 7. Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity and Innovation
- The case of R&D downsizing
- Part IV. Remembering to Forget
- 8. Local rationality, global blunders, and the boundaries of technological choice
- Lessons from IBM and DOS
- 9. Of Life Cycles Real and Imaginary Rebecca Henderson
- 10. Three Faces of Organizational Learning: wisdom, inertia, and discovery
- 11. Organizational Entrepreneurship in Mature Industry Firms: Foresight, Oversight and Invisibility
- 12. Minimizing Technological Oversights
- A marketing research perspective Jehoshua Eliashberg
- Part V. (S)top Management and Culture
- 13. Firm Capabilites and Managerial Decision-Making
- A theory of innovation biases, Janet Bercovitz
- 14. Organizational Responsiveness to Environmental Shock as an Indicator of Organizational Foresight and Oversight
- The role of executive team characteristics and organizational context Peter Murmann
- 15. Technological Innovation, Learning and Leadership Andrew
- 16. Risky Lessons
- Conditions for Organizational Learning Baruch Fischhoff
- 17. Exploiting Enthusiasm
- A case study of applied theories of innovation
- Part VI. Clearing the Fog
- 18. Beating the Odds
- Towards a theory of technological innovation
