Explanations of Success and Failure in Management Learning: What Can We Learn From Nokia’s Rise and Fall?
| Item Type | Journal paper |
| Abstract | We study the changing explanations of success and failure over the course of a firm’s history, building on a discursive approach that highlights the role of narrative attributions in making sense of corporate performance. Specifically, we analyze how the Nokia Corporation was framed first as a success and later as a failure and how these dimensions of performance were explained in various actors’ narrative accounts. In both the success and failure accounts, our analysis revealed a striking black-and-white picture that resulted in the institutionalization of Nokia’s metanarratives of success and failure. Our findings also reveal a number of discursive attributional tendencies, and thus, warn of the cognitive and politically motivated biases that are likely to characterize management literature. |
| Authors | Laamanen, Tomi; Lamberg, Juha-Antti & Vaara, Eero |
| Journal or Publication Title | Academy of Management learning & education : AMLE |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | business studies social sciences |
| HSG Classification | contribution to scientific community |
| HSG Profile Area | None |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Date | 1 November 2015 |
| Publisher | Academy of Management |
| Place of Publication | Briarcliff Manor, NY |
| Volume | 15 |
| Number | 1 |
| Page Range | 2-25 |
| ISSN | 1537-260X |
| ISSN-Digital | 1944-9585 |
| Publisher DOI | https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2013.0177 |
| Depositing User | Prof. Dr. Tomi Laamanen |
| Date Deposited | 27 Feb 2018 15:16 |
| Last Modified | 20 Jul 2022 17:34 |
| URI: | https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/253777 |
DownloadFull text not available from this repository.CitationLaamanen, Tomi; Lamberg, Juha-Antti & Vaara, Eero (2015) Explanations of Success and Failure in Management Learning: What Can We Learn From Nokia’s Rise and Fall? Academy of Management learning & education : AMLE, 15 (1). 2-25. ISSN 1537-260X Statisticshttps://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/id/eprint/253777
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