Towards an Attention-based View of Technology Decisions
Journal
R & D Management
ISSN
0033-6807
ISSN-Digital
1467-9310
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2016-09
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
The importance of technology decisions is widely acknowledged in both research and practice. However, we know little about how companies structure technology decisions from an organizational point of view and how attention is distributed in the course of the decision process in order to identify, process, and transfer information between the organizational units involved. Using the attention-based view of the firm and fourteen qualitative case studies, we present five approaches for organizing technology decisions: (1) Centralized Decision-Making, (2) Sedulous Information Bee, (3) Double-Blinded Analysis, (4) Moderated Expert Panel, and (5) Coterie Approach. On this ground, this paper introduces a new, attention-based view on technology decisions, which improves the theoretical understanding of organizations and provides guidelines for practitioners in choosing an appropriate organizational configuration in this regard.
Language
English
Keywords
Technology decision
Attention-based View
organizational structures
uncertainty
decision-making structures
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher place
Oxford
Volume
46
Number
4
Start page
781
End page
796
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
247894
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