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Strategy-making in Novel and Complex Worlds
Giovanni Gavetti
Daniel Levinthal
Jan 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.