Incumbent capability enhancement in response to radical innovations

Schumpeterian market disequilibrium marked by entrepreneurial entry and incumbent exit has long held an important place in management literature. The extant literature has overwhelmingly championed the newcomer, despite incumbents' obvious advantages in resources, experience and market knowledge. The current research provides evidence for the effectiveness of the incumbent's strategy of capability enhancement (along an established technological trajectory) while responding to radical technological innovations. We develop a cognitive process model that integrates managerial cognition with capability development and deployment views, depicting the dynamics of the incumbent's capability enhancement process. We analyze the cognitive drivers of organizational actions in all stages (rigidity, triggering event, and capability renewal) and elucidate the role of top management cognition in the processes of detecting and correcting errors in a strategic course of action. We ground our model in the case of a cork-stopper industry veteran's decline as corks ceded ground to screw tops and other stoppers in the wine industry. How a major company fought back in response to the emergence of these, in the industry context, radical technological innovations, provides the basis for our narrative. The proposed theoretical model contributes to literature on technology management (with regard to incumbent strategies in response to radical innovation threats) as well as the role of cognition in strategy (providing an explanation of the cognitive underpinnings of capability development).     

“I feel and think,therefore I am”: An Affect-Cognitive Theory of management decisions

I propose an Affect-Cognitive Theory to comprehensively understand how decisions occur in organizations. To this aim, I first review the assumptions of sensemaking and decision-making streams of research, especially the influence of bounded rationality, affective states and their relationships with cognition; then, I integrate them on the common basis of socially situated cognition. This new theory emphasizes the role of affective states in determining/being determined by cognition and its errors, pointing out decision makers’ affect as the result of multi-level adaptations to the physical and social environment. Management decisions are path dependent but not immutable; they, indeed, bank on the predominant feeling resulting from the modifying interactions and regulations of decision makers with their physical and social environment. Here, decision makers are proposed as “emotional cognizers” overcoming the thinking-feeling dichotomy that has often featured in the study of management decisions. This theory is beneficial for behavioral strategy, offering the needed assumptions to intertwine human cognition, emotions, and social behavior.     

源自文学典故的英语词汇

单词在英语学习中起着建筑材料的作用。很多人在阅读英美书刊或文章时常常被一些寓意深刻的词汇难住,即使查过字典后往往也只知其然而不知其所以然。本文旨在探讨一部分出自文学典故的英语词汇的来龙去脉及其用法,从而使学习者加深印象,记得牢固,用得恰当。除此之外,本文希望有助于提高学习者的兴趣,开阔视野,了解英美文化,进而领略英语原文的真谛。     

现代俄语口语中省略词的使用

口语是语言变化、发展的重要环节。口语中的诸多表现手段缺少不了省略词的使用，而省略词的使用恰恰迎合了现代各种语言发展、变化的一个共同趋势，即简化趋势。本文从四个方面对现代俄语口语中省略词的使用情况进行了详细阐述，揭示了其在使用过程中所产生的语义、语法、词汇、修辞等方面的特点。     

JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2002 Vol.24 No.1～4 Total Contents

在学习英语时,中西文化背景的差异,往往会给我们的阅读带来很大的困难。本文拟从词汇的文化内涵、历史典故和西方现代历史文化等三个方面来论述中西文化差异对篇章阅读的影响。     

谈谈经济合同签订中的陷阱及防范

本文提出目前经济活动中签订合同出现的种种陷阱及防范措施 ,目的在于增加经济合同签订中的法律意识 ,维护经济合同的平等互利、自愿协商、等价有偿、诚实守信的原则     

马原小说语言试验背后的话语权力意识

马原小说以先锋姿态与陌生化叙事引人注目,而背后涌动的却是作家获取话语权力的欲望以及为实现欲望而进行的语言实验与狂欢。当这种实验与狂欢模糊了公共权力的视野,失却了对现实境遇的本真显现,成为作家主观欲望的肆意表演,则注定会走向失语与沉寂。     

英语拟声词的修辞功能与翻译技巧

研究英语词汇是研究英语语言的一个重要方面。拟声词的词汇是通过模拟自然界中各种不同的声音而构成的。从拟声词的修辞功能和翻译技巧两方面探讨了拟声词在英语语言运用中的功能和重要性。