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Teppo Felin's Documents
Information Aggregation, Matching and Radical Market-Hierarchy Hybrids: Implications for the Theory of the Firm
market-hierarchy hybrids, information aggregation, prediction markets, crowdsourcing, matching, sorting, self-selection
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:579Uploaded:04 / 02 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionCausal and Constitutive Relations, and the Squaring of Coleman’s Diagram: Reply to Vromen
We respond to Jack Vromen’s (this issue) critique of our discussion of the missing micro-foundations of work on routines and capabilities in economics and management research. Contrary to Vromen, we argue that (1) inter-level relations can be causal, and that inter-level causal relations may also obtain between routines and actions and interactions; (2) there are no macro-level causal mechanisms; and (3) on certain readings of the notion of routines and capabilities, these may be macro causes.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:206Uploaded:11 / 07 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionThe Practice of Theory Borrowing in Organizational Studies
Journal of Management OnlineFirst, published on January 23, 2009 as doi:10.1177/0149206308330556 The Practice of Theory Borrowing in Organizational Studies: Current Issues and Future Directions David A. Whetten* Teppo Felin Marriott School, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 Brayden G. King Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2001 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208 The borrowing and application of concepts and theories from underlying disciplines, such as psychology and
Category:(not categorized)Reads:571Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionFinding the Organization in Organization Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor
Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the environment, as nodes in a social network, as members of a population, or as a bundle of organizing processes. This paper hopes to highlight the need for understanding, explicating, and researching the enduring, noun-like qualities of the organization. We situate the organization in a broader social landscape by examining what is unique about the organization as a social actor. We propose two assumptions that underlie our conceptualization of organizations as social actors: external attribution and intentionality. We then highlight important questions and implications forming the core of a distinctivelyorganizational analytical perspective. Key words: organization theory; social actors; sovereignty; responsibility; organizational identity; goals
Category:(not categorized)Reads:1,256Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionPerformativity of Theory, Arbitrary Conventions, and Possible Worlds: A Reality Check
We argue that Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton build on a scientifically problematic conception of the relationship between theory and social reality. Specifically, the performativity perspective that they build on makes tenuous assumptions about the role that theories, whether true or not, play in strongly constructing social reality, but the perspective fundamentally ignores central matters related to human nature and the boundaries of possibility. We argue for a more realistic approach to theory building and social science, one that recognizes the role that true theories play in helping us understand and explain reality, but also in turn shaping that reality given this better theoretical understanding. Key words: performativity; economics; philosophy of social science
Category:(not categorized)Reads:564Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionEntrepreneurs as Theorists: On the Origins of Collective Beliefs and Novel Strategies
What are the origins of entrepreneurial beliefs about new opportunities and the value of resources? In this article, we outline a theory and model of the emergence of entrepreneurial beliefs and novel strategies. We fi rst summarize extant literature by highlighting both the experiential and perceptual (or observational) origins of entrepreneurial beliefs and strategies. Thereafter we carefully explicate the role that entrepreneurial theorizing plays in the emergence of novel beliefs about new opportunities and make links with experiential and perceptual arguments. We specifi cally discuss three key mechanisms of entrepreneurial theorizing, namely: (1) the triggering role of experiential and observational fragments; (2) the imagination of possibilities; and (3) reasoning and justifi cation. Importantly, we also explicate the social mechanisms of entrepreneurial theorizing and the emergence of entrepreneurial beliefs and novel strategies, specifi cally by discussing the role of social interaction and selfselection in entrepreneurial activity.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:392Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionStrategic Organization: A Field in Search of Microfoundations
STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION Vol 3(4): 441–455 DOI: 10.1177/1476127005055796 Copyright ©2005 Sage Publications (London,Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) http://soq.sagepub.com S O ! A P B OX E D I TO R I A L E S S AY Strategic organization: a field in search of micro-foundations Teppo Felin Brigham Young University, USA Nicolai J. Foss Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Organizations are made up of individuals, and there is no organization without individuals. There is nothing quite as elementary;
Category:(not categorized)Reads:325Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionBuilding Micro-foundations for the Routines, Capabilities, and Performance Links
MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS Manage. Decis. Econ. 29: 489–502 (2008) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/mde.1413 Building Micro-foundations for the Routines, Capabilities, and Performance Links Peter Abella, Teppo Felinb, and Nicolai Fossc,* London School of Economics, London, UK Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA c Copenhagen Business School, Center for Strategic Management and Globalization, Porcelainshav
Category:(not categorized)Reads:256Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionSocial Reality, the Boundaries of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, and Economics
Organizational scholars have recently argued that economic theories and assumptions have adversely shaped manage- ment practice and human behavior, not only leading to the incorporation of trust-eroding market mechanisms into organizations, but also unnecessarily creating self-interested behavior. A number of highly influential papers have argued that theself-fulfilling nature of (even false) theories provides the underlying mechanism through which economics has adversely shaped not just social science but also management practice and individual behavior. We question these arguments and argue that there are important boundary conditions to theories falsely fulfilling themselves, boundary conditions that have hitherto been unexplored in organizational research, and boundary conditions that question the underlying premises used by organizational scholars and social scientists to attack economics. We specifically build on highly relevant findings from social psychology, philosophy, and organizational economics to show how (1) objective reality and (2) human nature provide two important boundary conditions for theories (falsely or otherwise) fulfilling themselves. We also defend orga- nizational economics, specifically the use of high-powered incentives in organizations, and argue that self-interest (rightly understood) facilitates in creating beneficial individual and collective and societal outcomes.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:591Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionThe Knowledge-Based View, Nested Heterogeneity and New Value Creation: Philosophical Considerations on the Locus of Knowledge
Academy of Management Review 2007, Vol. 32, No. 1, 195–218. THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED VIEW, NESTED HETEROGENEITY, AND NEW VALUE CREATION: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE LOCUS OF KNOWLEDGE TEPPO FELIN Brigham Young University WILLIAM S. HESTERLY University of Utah At what level is new value created, or, put differently, what is the locus of knowledge? While knowledge and capabilities-based researchers argue that the locus of new value and knowledge lies at the firm level, we challenge this concep
Category:Art & DesignReads:447Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2010ShareAdd to collection
