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Strategy-making in Novel and Complex Worlds

Giovanni GavettiDaniel LevinthalJan W. Rivkin

其他書名	The Power of Analogy
出版	Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 2004
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Phr1HAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋We examine how firms discover effective competitive positions in worlds that are both novel and complex. In such settings, neither rational deduction nor local search is likely to lead a firm to a successful array of choices. Analogical reasoning, however, may be helpful, allowing managers to transfer useful wisdom from similar settings they have experienced in the past. From a long list of observable industry characteristics, analogizing managers choose a subset they believe distinguished similar industries from different ones. Faced with a novel industry, they seek a familiar industry which matches the novel one along that subset of characteristics. They transfer from the matching industry high-level policies that guide search in the novel industry.