TY - JOUR
T1 - Of fruit flies, toads, and other hopeful monsters
T2 - thoughts on Levinthal’s Evolutionary Processes and Organizational Adaptation
AU - Kaul, Aseem
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Organizational Design Community.
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Dan Levinthal’s exciting new book, Evolutionary Processes and Organizational Adaptation, fundamentally expands our understanding of how executives enable organizational adaptation, highlighting their role in creating an artificial selection environment within the organization to accelerate learning. In this short essay, I review some key aspects of Levinthal’s arguments, especially his reconceptualization of exploration as the opening up of new performance dimensions. I then highlight some implications of his ideas for research on entrepreneurship, nonmarket strategy, and stakeholder theory that warrant further development.
AB - Dan Levinthal’s exciting new book, Evolutionary Processes and Organizational Adaptation, fundamentally expands our understanding of how executives enable organizational adaptation, highlighting their role in creating an artificial selection environment within the organization to accelerate learning. In this short essay, I review some key aspects of Levinthal’s arguments, especially his reconceptualization of exploration as the opening up of new performance dimensions. I then highlight some implications of his ideas for research on entrepreneurship, nonmarket strategy, and stakeholder theory that warrant further development.
KW - Adaptation
KW - Book review
KW - Exploration
KW - Nonmarket strategy
KW - Point of view
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U2 - 10.1007/s41469-022-00127-5
DO - 10.1007/s41469-022-00127-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138205908
SN - 2245-408X
VL - 11
SP - 91
EP - 94
JO - Journal of Organization Design
JF - Journal of Organization Design
IS - 3
ER -