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.     

从抽象王国到现实世界--读《费尔巴哈论》

恩格斯在《费尔巴哈论》中从历史观的高度揭示马克思主义哲学同它的直接理论来源之间的内在联系 ,这一联系的实质是从抽象王国走向现实世界。因此 ,从抽象王国到现实世界是《费尔巴哈论》一书的真正主题。     

对建构主义教学观的几点认识

围绕建构主义教学观与传统教学观、建构主义教学策略、建构主义教学模式等几个方面 ,就数学教学谈了对建构主义教学观的几点认识     

论非理性因素在认识中的作用

非理性因素作为主体认识结构中的一个恒常性要素，对主体的认识活动具有非常重要的作用。情感、意志、需求等非理性因素对认识活动起着选择、调节控制和驱动的作用，直觉、灵感等非理性因素对认识的发展起突破和创造的作用。把握非理性因素在认识中的作用，有助于我们深入理解认识过程的内在机制。     

试论美术文化中的技术理性

无论从劳动产品的角度看,还是从社会的角度看,技术都是理性的表现;产品的生产过程,是一种技术展现的过程,即生产者的个性标记通过技术展现的过程,因此,技术本身也具有理性。理性的技术促进了人类社会的发展。     

阅读教学中学生英语写作能力的培养

阅读与写作关系密切 ,阅读能力和写作水平是相辅相成的。大量的阅读不仅丰富写作的内容 ,而且刺激写作兴趣 ;从语篇入手 ,给精读课文加边注、列提纲、写概要的方法 ,不仅可以培养学生独立思考、逻辑分析、语言及内容的组织和概括能力 ,而且可以使学生加深对文章的理解 ,养成良好的阅读习惯。     

学术论文摘要的编写要求

介绍了EI对英文摘要的具体要求,给出了缩短摘要的具体方法。指出对作者工作叙述不具体、背景信息和无用信息过多,是我国科技期刊稿件经常出现的问题,并列举实例,说明中英文摘要的修改方法。     

浅议大学生道德认知与道德行为失衡现象

大学生在人与自然的关系、人与社会的关系、人与人的关系以及自身修养等方面普遍存在着道德认知与道德行为的失衡现象,这种失衡严重影响了大学生的全面发展,对此要给予足够的重视,认真地加以研究和解决。     

文化认知与汉英文化专有词目等值释义

汉英双语词典中文化专有词目的等值释义,应当从文化认知出发,分析词目民族文化信息特征,全面揭示文化专有词所隐含的文化信息,采用适当的词语结构和词义表达方式;并因词而异地采取借用和仿造手段,解决目的语中因文化缺项所造成的词语缺项问题,从而促进词语的创新和文化的交流,提高双语词典的释义质量。