The Impact of Media Information on Issue Salience Following Other Organizations’ Failures
研究媒体在组织失败后如何影响决策者对问题的关注和资源分配，发现关于其他组织的报道有时比关于自身的报道更具影响力。
Research on organizational decision making seeks to understand how external events shape how organizational decision makers attend to particular issues and allocate scarce resources across the organization’s activities. The author investigates whether supplemental information available to decision makers about their own and other organizations impacts this process. He finds that media coverage about particular issues following failures throughout the field can influence decisions regarding resource allocation and that coverage about other organizations may in some cases be more influential than coverage about the focal firm. The study and its findings forward our understanding regarding how organizations scan their environments and how multiple, interacting forms of external information may collectively influence internal organizational processes.