Cognitive and Organizational Structures: An Empirical Analysis
实验检验了组织成员认知结构与组织结构之间的因果关系，发现战略决策者的认知结构对组织结构影响不大。
Relationships between the cognitive structures of organizational members and the structures of the organizations to which they belong have been the subject of considerable theoretical speculation. Limited empirical evidence suggests the two structures are related but the issue of directionality has not been investigated. The study reported here adopts an attribution theory perspective to test the causal nature of this relationship in an experimental setting. The findings in this initial investigation of the causal linkages between cognitive and organizational structures support the view that the cognitive structures of strategic decision makers are largely irrelevant.