Variable organizational risk preferences: test of the March-Shapira model

Article Abstract:

The present study provides initial empirical tests of the March and Shapira model of manager's risk preferences using organizational data. The variables affecting risk and the sizes of these effects differ across performance categories with poor-performing organizations show increased risk as they near bankruptcy, conclude the authors.

Asset & Risk Management, Business, Risk management, Surveys, Organizational research, Business models

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The influence of founding team company affiliations on firm behavior

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An argument that founding team composition, in particular, members' prior company affiliations, shapes new firm behaviors is presented. Firms with founding teams whose members have worked at the same company engage in exploitation because they have shared understanding and could act quickly.

Organizational structure

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Adding interpersonal learning and tacit knowledge to March's exploration-exploitation model,

Article Abstract:

March (1991) presented an agent-based model simulating learning within an organization in his classic article on exploration and exploitation. The study qualifies and extends March's (1991) conclusions regarding the exploration-exploitation trade-off in organizational learning.

Organizational learning, Group work in education, Team learning approach in education, Collaborative learning

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