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Research
My research focuses on
learning, decision making, and strategy, often using formal models to
examine the empirical implications of alternative theories. My recent
work has examined how the process of learning from experience can
systematically bias the sample of information and experiences individuals
and firms have access to. In a series of paper I have illustrated how
learning from such biased samples can generate in-group bias,
discrimination, risk aversion, and conformity.
Publications
Denrell,
J. and Z. Shapira (2009). “Performance Sampling and Bimodal Duration
Dependence.” Journal of
Mathematical Sociology.,
33: 66-91.
Denrell,
J. (2008). “Indirect Social Influence” Science, 321 (5885, July 4), 47-48. Link
to article.
Denrell,
J. (2008). “Organizational Risk Taking: Adaptation versus Variable Risk
Preferences.” Industrial and
Corporate Change, 17 (3), 427-466. Link to journal
website.
Denrell,
J. and B. Kovacs (2008). “Selective Sampling of
Empirical Settings in Organizational Studies.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 53, 109-144. Link
to journal website.
Denrell, J. and G. Le
Mens (2007). “Interdependent Sampling and Social
Influence.” Psychological Review, 114 (2): 398-422. Link to journal
website.
T. Andersen, J.
Denrell, and R. Bettis (2007). “Strategic
Responsiveness and Bowman’s Risk-Return Paradox.” Strategic Management Journal, 28(4): 409-427. Link
to journal website.
Denrell, J. (2007).
“Adaptive Learning and Risk Taking.” Psychological
Review, 114 (1): 177-187. Link to journal
website.
Denrell,
J. (2006). “Superstitious behavior as a byproduct of intelligent
adaptation” Handbook of Organizational Decision Making. Edited by William Starbuck and Gerald
Hodkinson. Forthcoming, Oxford University
Press.
Denrell,
J. (2005). “Why Most People Disapprove of Me: Experience Sampling in
Impression Formation”. Psychological Review, 112 (4), 951-978. Link to journal
website.
Denrell,
J. (2005). “Should We Be Impressed with High Performance?” Journal of
Management Inquiry, 14 (3), 292-298. Link to
journal website.
Denrell,
J. (2005). “Selection Bias and the Perils of Benchmarking”. Harvard
Business Review, April, 2005, 114-119. Link
to journal website.
Denrell,
J. (2005). “The Performance of Performance,” Journal of Management and Governance, 8 (4), 345-349.
Denrell, J, Arvidsson, N., and
U. Zander (2004). “Managing Knowledge in the Dark: An Empirical
Examination of the Reliability of Competency Evaluations.” Management
Science, 50 (11), 1491-1503. Link
to journal website.
Denrell, J., C. Fang, and D.
Levinthal (2004).“From T-Mazes to Labyrinths:
Learning from Model-Based Feedback.” Management
Science, 50 (10), 1366-1378.
Link
to journal website.
Denrell, J. (2004). “Random
Walks and Sustained Competitive Advantage.” Management Science 50 (7): 922-934. Link
to journal website.
Denrell, J., C. Fang, and S.
Winter (2003). “The Economics of Strategic Opportunity.”
Strategic Management Journal,
24 (10): 977-990. Link
to journal website.
Denrell, J. (2003). “Vicarious
Learning, Under-Sampling of Failure, and the Myths of Management,” Organization Science, 14 (3):
227-243. Link
to journal website.
Denrell, J. and J. G. March
(2001). “Adaptation as Information Restriction: The Hot Stove Effect,” Organization Science, 12 (5):
523-538. Link
to journal website. Link
to JSTOR.
Denrell, J. (2000). “Radical Organization Theory: An
Incomplete Contract Approach to Power and Organizational Design,” Rationality and Society, 12:
39-61. Link to
journal website.
Working
Papers
Denrell,
J. “Mean-Variance Preferences as the Outcome of Reinforcement
Learning”
Denrell, J. and G. Le Mens “How Concerns for Legitimacy
Can Bias Assessments of Efficiency”.
Denrell,
J. “Competitive Learning and Market Differentiation”
Denrell,
J. “Learning from and by the Crowd”
Denrell, J. and G. Le Mens “Illusory Correlations as the
Outcome of Experiential Sampling”
Denrell, J. and G. Le Mens. “Information
Bias in Rational Learning”
Denrell,
J. and G. Le Mens. “Learning to be Myopic.”
Denrell,
J. and C. Fang. “Predicting the next big thing:
Is an accurate vision an indication or good or poor judgment?.”
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