36: Attention by Design: A Normative View (Luke Rhee)

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Required readings

Rhee, L. 2024. CEO Attentional Vigilance: Behavioral Implications for the Pursuit of Exploration. Academy of Management Journal 67(6): 1463–1487

Rhee, L. and Leonardi, P. 2024. Borrowing Networks for Innovation: The Role of Attention Allocation in Secondhand Brokerage. Strategic Management Journal 45(7): 1326–1365

Ocasio, W., Rhee, L. and Milner, D. 2020. Attention, Knowledge and Organizational Learning. In Linda Argote and John Levine (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Group and Organizational Learning. Oxford University Press

Discussion questions

If attention is scarce, selective, and situated, what exactly can organizations design for better performance? Is the object of design the individual decision maker’s cognition, the organizational structure that channels attention, the situation in which attention is exercised, or the information environment that changes the returns to existing attention patterns?

How can researchers measure the performance consequences of attention by design while also accounting for its opportunity costs? If better attention to one domain necessarily creates non-attention elsewhere, how can empirical studies capture both the benefits of what organizations notice and the costs of what they systematically neglect?

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