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2017
Article

Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals

By: Joshua W. Buckholtz, Uma R. Karmarkar, Shengxuan Ye, Grace M. Brennan and Arielle Baskin-Sommers

Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity rather than risk. While risk and... View Details

Keywords: Ambiguity; Neuroscience; Neuroeconomics; Choice; Psychology; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Health Disorders

2010
Conference Presentation

Compensatory Fit in Integrated Architectures: The Upside of Structural Ambiguity

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri

Keywords: Ambiguity; Collaboration; Organizational Design

August 2016
Article

Asymmetric Effects of Favorable and Unfavorable Information on Decision-making Under Ambiguity

By: Alexander Peysakhovich and Uma R. Karmarkar

Most daily decisions involve uncertainty about outcome probabilities arising from incomplete knowledge, i.e., ambiguity. We explore how the addition of partial information affects these types of choices using theoretical and empirical methods. Our experiments in both... View Details

Keywords: Ambiguity; Decision Making; Outcomes; Information; Decision Choices and Conditions; Outcome or Result

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2010
Conference Presentation

Compensatory Fit in Integrated Architectures: The Upside of Structural Ambiguity

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri

Keywords: Integrated Design; Ambiguity; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure

01 Mar 2005
News

Facing Ambiguity

were later cited as the cause of the disaster.) NASA’s experience offers a lesson to managers in other areas, suggests Edmondson, who, with her coauthors, came up with the concept of the “recovery window,” or the time in which an organization can respond to an View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

November 2006
Article

Facing Ambiguous Threats

By: Michael A. Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Amy C. Edmondson

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16 Oct 2009
Conference Presentation

Leading under Ambiguity

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Leadership

Other Article

The Ambiguity of Stalin

By: Jeremy Friedman

2011
Other Unpublished Work

Innovation and Regulative Ambiguities in the U.S. Geothermal Power Sector

By: Shon R. Hiatt

While prior institutional research has focused on institutional ambiguity as an exogenous condition under which organizations exercise agency, this study examines the state's exercise of agency in making legal institutions more or less ambiguous and its impact on... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Policy; Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Energy Industry; United States

09 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure

Keywords: by Christopher G. Myers, Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino

2005
Chapter

The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats

By: A. Edmondson, Erika Ferlins, Laura Feldman and Richard Bohmer

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities

2005
Class Lecture

Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto and Richard M.J. Bohmer

Keywords: Learning; Risk and Uncertainty; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams

15 Nov 2018
News

Algorithms tame ambiguities in use of legal data

July 2005
Class Lecture

Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation

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Aug 2011 - 2011
Conference Presentation

Innovation and Regulative Ambiguities in the U.S. Geothermal Power Sector

By: Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; United States

5 May 2012
Conference Presentation

Construction of Ambiguous Technology Definitions and Entrepreneurship in The U.S. Geothermal Power Sector

By: Shon R. Hiatt

2004
Working Paper

The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats in High-Risk Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Erika M. Ferlins and Laura R. Feldman

May 2012
Case

Columbia's Final Mission (Abridged) (A)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Kerry Herman

This case documents decision-making processes, organizational culture, and other contributors to NASA's failed Columbia mission in 2003. Addresses the question of how organizations should deal with "ambiguous threats" - weak signals of potential crisis - and explores... View Details

Keywords: Cognitive Biases; Teams; Organizational Learning; Ambiguous Threat; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Failure; Crisis Management; Aerospace Industry

Aug 2013
Conference Presentation

Brokerage Spaces: How Informal Networks Transform Formal Structure In The Pursuit Of Complex Tasks

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri

Keywords: Ambiguity; Cognition; Collaboration; Networks; Organizational Design; Cognition and Thinking

15 Nov 2006
Keynote Speech

Profit in Purpose: Can Corporations Make the Connection?" Panelist. "Leading in the Age of Ambiguity

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Mission and Purpose

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