We examine how experience-induced adaptations that affect the breadth of an ongoing activity affect performance. The research on organizational learning suggests that accumulating experience, both from repetition and adaptation at the activity level, improves outcomes. Yet, findings on the...

Research Summary: We consider how different problem sources — proximate versus remote — relate to heterogeneity in search breadth. While studies of search have established the importance of search breadth and argued that problems trigger search, this research has focused on a single problem...

We examine how divestitures influence improvements in a firm's resource base, as indicated by new product development. Because improvements in firms' resource bases depend upon available managerial capacity, divestitures that release greater managerial capacity should drive greater improvements...

Technological search studies argue that problems trigger search, but we lack understanding of which features of a problem associate with a critical search activity: search breadth. This paper considers how different problem sources—proximate versus remote problem sources—relate to...

Prior research has demonstrated that although organizations generally avoid uncertainties, this behavior is not universally true. To understand better the contingencies around organizations' responses to regulatory uncertainty, we consider the influence of corporate structure on attentional...

This paper examines differences in the rate and potential of firms' capability development trajectories. Capability development trajectories are the paths over which firms' capabilities change with experience and other activities. While prior research focused on factors affecting capability...