Competition and Beyond: Problems and Attention Allocation in the Organizational Rulemaking Process
研究了组织在面临新问题挑战现有惯例时如何分配注意力并生成解决方案，通过分析美国联邦航空管理局的航空安全规则制定过程，揭示了不同阶段注意力分配受问题竞争、紧迫性和制度因素影响。
This study investigates how an organization allocates attention and generates solutions in response to new problems challenging existing routines, under the influences of different contexts surrounding problems and solutions. By examining the formation of airline safety rules by the Federal Aviation Administration, I show that although different types of problems compete for attention at the rule proposal stage when the organization searches for solutions to problems, at the rule finalization stage, attention is guided by “urgency” induced by the aggregate flow of new problems, which interacts with certain institutional factors and with an a priori “priority” given to different types of rules. The implications of the study on theories of organizational attention are discussed.