Attentional homogeneity in industries: the effect of discretion
研究了行业间管理者认知的同质性差异，发现行业自由裁量权越大，企业间注意力模式越多样化。对理解行业竞争格局和战略决策有参考价值。
Industries differ in how homogeneous they are in terms of managerial cognitions. This study draws upon the concept of discretion, arguing that the more latitude managers have in an industry, the more varied their companies' attention patterns will be. Focusing on 14 industries assessed as differing widely in their discretion, we measured intra-industry attentional homogeneity using Computer Assisted Text Analysis of letters to shareholders in corporate annual reports. As expected, the greater the discretion in an industry, the less the attentional homogeneity. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.