Publié le 2 mai 2025
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Mis à jour le 2 mai 2025
Date(s)
le 7 mai 2025
7 mai 2025
11h00 - Salle Picasso
11h00 - Salle Picasso
GREDEG
Francesco Toni and Christian Vezil are glad to invite you to the Fifth meeting of the Journal Club.
PhD students in Economics will be at the heart of this initiative, presenting papers that have significantly influenced their research areas. We encourage presentations on all Economics fields, including but not limited to Econometric Methods, Environmental Economics, Industrial Dynamics, Innovation, and Macroeconomics. While PhD students will lead the presentations, we warmly invite faculty members to attend and contribute their valuable expertise and insights to the discussions.
For this session, Lucia Ludovici will present the paper “The growth of the firm: An attention-based view” by John Joseph and Alex J. Wilson.
ABSTRACT
Although most theories of growth presume that growth varies with the focus and limits of managerial attention, the actual role played by attention has remained largely implicit. In contrast, this article explicitly considers attention structure and the processes that place sustained focus on growth issues. We explain how attention structure—specialized attention within a particular unit and integrated attention between units— affects both bottom-up (stimulus-driven) and top-down (schema-driven) attentional processing of new issues. We also examine the relationship between attention structure and divisional interdependencies, identifying conditions under which different attentional patterns generate organizational tensions that lead to architectural elaboration: the delineation of new organizational units. This logic is illustrated with examples from Motorola, a large telecom- munications equipment provider, during a period of sustained growth. In linking theories of growth with the attention-based view (ABV), we augment both perspectives and offer an approach that provides a better understand growth’s cognitive underpinnings.
Read the paper
The meeting will take place on Thursday 7th MAY, at 11:00 in the Picasso Room
The session will consist of a 30-minute presentation, followed by a 30-minute open discussion. Please note that this session will be held exclusively in person.PhD students in Economics will be at the heart of this initiative, presenting papers that have significantly influenced their research areas. We encourage presentations on all Economics fields, including but not limited to Econometric Methods, Environmental Economics, Industrial Dynamics, Innovation, and Macroeconomics. While PhD students will lead the presentations, we warmly invite faculty members to attend and contribute their valuable expertise and insights to the discussions.
For this session, Lucia Ludovici will present the paper “The growth of the firm: An attention-based view” by John Joseph and Alex J. Wilson.
ABSTRACT
Although most theories of growth presume that growth varies with the focus and limits of managerial attention, the actual role played by attention has remained largely implicit. In contrast, this article explicitly considers attention structure and the processes that place sustained focus on growth issues. We explain how attention structure—specialized attention within a particular unit and integrated attention between units— affects both bottom-up (stimulus-driven) and top-down (schema-driven) attentional processing of new issues. We also examine the relationship between attention structure and divisional interdependencies, identifying conditions under which different attentional patterns generate organizational tensions that lead to architectural elaboration: the delineation of new organizational units. This logic is illustrated with examples from Motorola, a large telecom- munications equipment provider, during a period of sustained growth. In linking theories of growth with the attention-based view (ABV), we augment both perspectives and offer an approach that provides a better understand growth’s cognitive underpinnings.
Read the paper
