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To develop a conceptual framework explaining how the allocation and channeling of decision-makers' attention governs firm-level actions and strategic adaptation.

July 1, 1997Strategic Management Journal

Towards an Attention-Based View of the Firm

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WOWilliam OcasioUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Theoretical model demonstrates how organizational attention distribution drives strategic decisions in corporations, highlighting determinants of organizational adaptation.

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To develop a conceptual framework explaining how the allocation and channeling of decision-makers' attention governs firm-level actions and strategic adaptation.
Synthesized principles of organizational theory to construct a model of firm decision-making based on attention processing.
Conceptualized how organizational rules, resources, and relational networks interact with situational context to regulate focus on specific problems and solutions.
Decision-maker behavior is shown to be governed directly by the bounded subset of issues and answers that enter their focus within a given situation.
Organizational adaptation emerges from structured procedures and communications that systematically distribute problems, solutions, and decision-makers across the firm.

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William Ocasio (1997) studied this question.

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Theoretical model demonstrates how organizational attention distribution drives strategic decisions in corporations, highlighting determinants of organizational adaptation.

Towards an Attention-Based View of the Firm

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