Exercising entrepreneurial opportunities: The role of information‐gathering and information‐processing capabilities of the firm
研究了企业信息收集与信息处理能力对行使创业机会有效性的影响，发现能力过高且不平衡时反而可能降低效果，为管理者提供反直觉洞见。
Abstract In this article, we study two capabilities that influence firms' effectiveness in exercising entrepreneurial opportunities: information‐gathering and information‐processing capability. We argue that their effects are not always positive or symmetrical. When the firm's information‐processing capability is low, high levels of its information‐gathering capability may result in lower effectiveness because of managerial cognitive overload. The effects of high information‐processing capability are more nuanced and depend on whether the firm's information processing has experiential or cognitive character. Our analysis offers a counterintuitive insight: the firm may fail to exercise entrepreneurial opportunities effectively not only when it has low levels of information capabilities, but also when its levels are high but unbalanced. Copyright © 2009 Strategic Management Society.