Daniel Levinthal

48 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-8740-6091

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Publications

• Mapping the landscape of research findings: Generalization across contexts in strategic management research — Strategic Management Journal 2026
• Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery — Organization Science 2025
• The Dual Challenge of Search and Coordination for Organizational Adaptation: How Structures of Influence Matter — Organization Science 2023
• Wisdom in the Wild: Generalization and Adaptive Dynamics — Organization Science 2023
• The Plural of Goal: Learning in a World of Ambiguity — Organization Science 2021
• When Two Bosses Are Better Than One: Nearly Decomposable Systems and Organizational Adaptation — Organization Science 2018
• Resource Allocation and Firm Boundaries — Journal of Management 2017
• Firm Lifecycles: Linking Employee Incentives and Firm Growth Dynamics — Strategic Management Journal 2017
• Mental representation and the discovery of new strategies — Strategic Management Journal 2016
• Three Facets of Organizational Adaptation: Selection, Variety, and Plasticity — Organization Science 2015
• Complementary assets as pipes and prisms: Innovation incentives and trajectory choices — Strategic Management Journal 2014
• Hidden but in plain sight: The role of scale adjustment in industry dynamics — Strategic Management Journal 2014
• The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects — Academy of Management Annals 2012
• Chasing a Moving Target: Exploitation and Exploration in Dynamic Environments — Management Science 2012
• Statement from the Editor Regarding “Status Conflict in Groups” — Organization Science 2012
• A behavioral approach to strategy—what's the alternative? — Strategic Management Journal 2011
• Opportunity costs and non-scale free capabilities: profit maximization, corporate scope, and profit margins — Strategic Management Journal 2010
• Near-Term Liability of Exploitation: Exploration and Exploitation in Multistage Problems — Organization Science 2009
• Hoping for A to Z While Rewarding Only A: Complex Organizations and Multiple Goals — Organization Science 2009
• The Dual Role of Modularity: Innovation and Imitation — Management Science 2008
• Response to Farjoun's ‘Strategy making, novelty, and analogical reasoning — commentary on Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin (2005)’ — Strategic Management Journal 2008
• Doing versus seeing: acts of exploitation and perceptions of exploration — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2008
• Choice Interactions and Business Strategy — Management Science 2008
• Technology: the role of network structures — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2007
• Two Faces of Search: Alternative Generation and Alternative Evaluation — Organization Science 2007
• Myopia of Selection: Does Organizational Adaptation Limit the Efficacy of Population Selection? — Administrative Science Quarterly 2007
• Perspective—Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future — Organization Science 2007
• Crossing an Apparent Chasm: Bridging Mindful and Less-Mindful Perspectives on Organizational Learning — Organization Science 2006
• Strategy making in novel and complex worlds: the power of analogy — Strategic Management Journal 2005
• Bounded Rationality and the Search for Organizational Architecture: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Design of Organizations and Their Evolvability — Administrative Science Quarterly 2004
• From T-Mazes to Labyrinths: Learning from Model-Based Feedback — Management Science 2004
• 50th Anniversay Article: The Strategy Field from the Perspective ofManagement Science: Divergent Strands and Possible Integration — Management Science 2004
• What IsNotA Real Option: Considering Boundaries for the Application of Real Options to Business Strategy — Academy of Management Review 2004
• Modularity and Innovation in Complex Systems — Management Science 2004
• Real Options and Real Tradeoffs — Academy of Management Review 2004
• Temporarily Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation — Organization Science 2003
• Demand Heterogeneity and Technology Evolution: Implications for Product and Process Innovation — Management Science 2001
• Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search — Administrative Science Quarterly 2000
• Landscape Design: Designing for Local Action in Complex Worlds — Organization Science 1999
• Adaptation on Rugged Landscapes — Management Science 1997
• Reply to “Comments on ‘Fortune Favors the Prepared Firm’” — Management Science 1997
• Co-Evolution of Capabilities and Industry: The Evolution of Mutual Fund Processing — Strategic Management Journal 1994
• Fortune Favors the Prepared Firm — Management Science 1994
• The myopia of learning — Strategic Management Journal 1993
• Role of Individual Attachments in the Dissolution of Interorganizational Relationships — Academy of Management Journal 1992
• Organizational Adaptation and Environmental Selection-Interrelated Processes of Change — Organization Science 1991
• Honeymoons and the Liability of Adolescence: A New Perspective on Duration Dependence in Social and Organizational Relationships — Academy of Management Review 1991
• Durable Goods and Product Obsolescence — Marketing Science 1989