Works
- Towards an attention-based view of the firm, Strategic Management Journal 18(S1) (summer special issue), 187 to 206, 1997
- Neo-Carnegie: the Carnegie school's past, present, and reconstructing for the future, Organization Science 18(3), 523 to 536, 2007
- Architecture, attention, and adaptation in the multibusiness firm: General Electric from 1951 to 2001, Strategic Management Journal 33(6), 633 to 660, 2012
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The attention-based view of the firm
Ideas
Attention-based view. Ocasio argued that firm behavior follows from how the firm's rules, resources, and relationships channel and distribute decision makers' attention. Caveat: A theory, with later empirical support from others.
Governance channels in the multibusiness firm. With Joseph, traced how General Electric's channels joined corporate and business unit attention from 1951 to 2001, and when they failed to. Caveat: One firm.