Toward an attention-based view of crises

Kudesia, Ravi S; Lang, Tingting

doi:10.1177/14761270231189935

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“…The authors of [42] provide a comprehensive overview of the development of the ABV in their literature review. The ABV approach is also used to manage and improve the management of crises [63]. Although the ABV was developed over 20 years ago, this approach is still being used, further developed, and discussed [64,65].…”

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Organizational Resilience and the Attention-Based View of the Firm—Empirical Evidence from German SMEs

Weber,

Kokott

2024

Sustainability

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The need for organizations to increase resilience is still growing, not least because of economic crises, such as the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and supply shortages in raw material procurement combined with rising commodity costs and energy prices. We use an attention-based view approach as a theoretical lens to investigate the shift in management’s attention due to a crisis, with a particular focus on working capital management (WCM) as a decisive finance tool. In addition, we examine how management’s attention shifts to organizational resilience (OR). We also analyze how managers’ cognitive flexibility (CF), which reflects their ability to anticipate and quickly adapt, moderates the change in attention. By surveying 307 top and middle managers in German small- and medium-sized enterprises, we measure the crisis effect on the shift in managerial attention to WCM and OR. In addition, we measure managers’ CF and examine the contribution of these individual characteristics in the context of WCM and OR. Our mediation model reveals a positive, indirect-only effect of the crisis on the shift in management attention to OR mediated by the shift in management attention to WCM. In addition, our results show that managers’ CF negatively moderates the effect between managerial focus shifts to WCM and to OR. Our study’s results deepen the understanding of the importance of managers’ CF in times of crisis and the impact of CF on sales development, suggesting that managers’ CF may influence the link between the focal characteristics of WCM and OR.

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Organizational Resilience and the Attention-Based View of the Firm—Empirical Evidence from German SMEs

Weber,

Kokott

2024

Sustainability

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“…Note that two of the articles covered in two separate themes , Bartel and Rockmann (2024) and Kudesia and Lang (2024), addressed a fifth topic that we suggested in our call: attention, crisis management, and organizational. These two articles address similar empirical phenomena but use different meta-theoretical perspectives.…”

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“…Three of the articles are empirical: One is qualitative (Plotnikova et al, 2024), and two are quantitative (Boynton, 2024;Mack et al, 2024). Five of the articles are primarily theoretical (Bartel and Rockmann, 2024;Love, 2024;Kudesia and Lang, 2024;Nicolini and Mengis, 2024;Vuori, 2024).…”

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“…All emphasize the decreasing importance of organizational structures for explaining attentional dynamics in changing organizational forms. Kudesia and Lang (2024) developed a practice-based theory of attentional dynamics. Love (2024) develops a theory on attentional control through issue-specific channels.…”

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“…These two articles address similar empirical phenomena but use different meta-theoretical perspectives. Bartel and Rockmann (2024) more directly embrace a cross-level approach to the ABV while Kudesia and Lang (2024) suggest that a more radical reorientation toward studying organizational crises is needed, at least in the context of the changing nature of organizations and organizing.…”

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Research frontiers on the attention-based view of the firm

Joseph,

Laureiro-Martinez,

Nigam

et al. 2024

Strategic Organization

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The attention-based view (ABV) offers a foundational perspective on strategy and organizing. Despite its significance, questions persist about the relationship between organizational attention and strategic organization. Inspired by the evolving literature on organizational attention, its determinants, and consequences, this special issue aims to advance theory and research in the ABV realm. It includes eight articles—three empirical and five theoretical—spanning a diverse range of topics. Emerging themes include a shift from viewing attention as individual cognition toward attentional engagement through interactions and social relations within organizations, the temporal and dynamic nature of attention, and an explicit recognition that ABV is not about a fixed quantity of attention but what shapes strategic organizational behavior and adaptation.

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The theory of high hazard (HHT) based on grounded theory method and theories integration

Ghaith,

Huimin

2024

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PurposeOrganizations working in high-hazard environments contribute significantly to modern society and the economy, not only for the valuable resources they hold but also for the indispensable products and services they provide, such as power generation, transportation and defense weapons. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to develop a framework that outlines future research on systems safety and provides a better understanding of how organizations can effectively manage hazard events.Design/methodology/approachIn this research, we developed the high hazard theory (HHT) and a theoretical framework based on the grounded theory method (GTM) and the integration of three established theoretical perspectives: normal accident theory (NAT), high reliability theory (HRT) and resilience engineering (RE) theory.FindingsWe focused on the temporal aspect of accidents to create a timeline showing the progression of hazard events and the factors contributing to safety and hazards in organizations. Given the limitations of the previous theories in providing a coherent explanation of hazard event escalation in high-hazard organizations (HHOs), we argue that the highlighted theories can be more complementary than contradictory regarding their standpoints on disasters and accident prevention.Practical implicationsA proper appreciation of the hazard nature of organizations can help reduce their susceptibility to failure, prevent outages and breakdowns of systems, identify areas for improvement and develop strategies to enhance performance.Originality/valueBy developing HHT, we contribute to systems safety research by developing a new, refined theory and enrich the theoretical debate. We also expand the understanding of scholars and practitioners about the characteristics of organizations working in high-hazard environments.

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Toward an attention-based view of crises

Cited by 4 publications

References 101 publications

Organizational Resilience and the Attention-Based View of the Firm—Empirical Evidence from German SMEs

Organizational Resilience and the Attention-Based View of the Firm—Empirical Evidence from German SMEs

Research frontiers on the attention-based view of the firm

The theory of high hazard (HHT) based on grounded theory method and theories integration

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