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.     

中国网上聊天室中英语语言特征

中国网上英语聊天室中的英语与英语国家聊天室中的英语相比较 ,在某些方面 ,如缩写的使用、句首字母少用大写、句尾少标点等有一些共同的特征。但由于受本族语的影响 ,中国人网上聊天的语言有其独到之处。中国人用英语聊天的目的主要是为了练习语言 ,使英语语言的交际功能减弱。受语言水平所限 ,中国聊天者的会话语言更接近书面语体 ,聊天的内容狭窄且缺乏连续性。网上聊天 ,作为一种新的语言交际方式 ,为英语学习者们提供了另一种学习途径 ,在练习快速英语思维及表达方面有着积极作用     

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     

词语累赘与信息羡余

信息羡余是语言运用中加强信息传递的手段。信息羡余有两种加强信息的方式 :音节扩充 ,解释性叠加。语病重复是语句结构上的累赘 ,是应该删除的多余成分。保留信息羡余成分是“求繁” ,是信息传递的足量原则在起作用 ;删除累赘是“求简” ,是语言表达的经济原则在起作用 ,如何把握繁简的度 ,是语言规范工作所面临的一个难题。当前 ,语言规范化领域存在打击面过宽的偏向。区别“信息羡余”和“语病重复” ,可以从两方面考虑 :一是凭借人们的语感 ,一是参照表达实际。有时 ,是重复还是羡余 ,分界不是很清楚     

“请”字用法汉英对比的语用分析

迁移是语际语用学和二语习得研究领域的重要范畴。现回顾迁移的相关理论,并考察请字在汉英两种语言里的用法及其异同点。并指出母语与知识对目的语表达的牵制作用、对母语句式或用法的泛化以及语言表达背后的社会价值观是造成语用负迁移的重要原因。     

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。     

语境对语义的作用探析

语境是语义学中一个重要的范畴。以丰富的例句从以下四个方面:使语言中的多义和歧义现象获得明确的单一性;影响语义的感情色彩;语义的语体色彩及填补或丰富语言本身的意义探讨了语境对语义的作用,旨在唤起读者学会在不同的语境中择取语义的自觉意识。     

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。     

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。