Escalation of commitment to failing investments is considered to be representative of biased forms of decision-making which may result in unproductive consequences. Decision makers adopt investment courses of action in initial conditions of uncertainty, which subsequently appear to lead to...

The purpose of this dissertation is two fold; first, to examine the influence on managerial attention of the structural characteristics in a firm’s core technical knowledge portfolio. Second, to examine the influence on exploratory innovation of those structural characteristics as well as the...