Filling empty seats: How status and organizational hierarchies affect exploration versus exploitation in team design

Perretti, F.; Negro, G.

doi:10.5465/amj.2006.22083032

Filling empty seats: How status and organizational hierarchies affect exploration versus exploitation in team design

Perretti, F.; Negro, G.

Authors

F. Perretti

G. Negro

Abstract

Informal and formal mechanisms affect choices between exploitation and exploration in team design. We argue that the status differentiation of team members and differences in organizational structure limit exploration in the form of introducing newcomers to teams and creating new combinations of team members. High- and low-status team members and one- and three-layer organizational structures were expected to be positively related to exploration, and middle-status team members and two-layer structures were expected to be negatively related to it. We used data on 6,446 motion pictures produced by the Hollywood film industry in the period 1929-58 to test our hypotheses.

Citation

Perretti, F., & Negro, G. (2006). Filling empty seats: How status and organizational hierarchies affect exploration versus exploitation in team design. Academy of Management Journal, 49(4), 759-777. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.22083032

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Aug 1, 2006
Deposit Date	Aug 27, 2008
Publicly Available Date	Dec 1, 2017
Journal	Academy of Management Journal
Print ISSN	0001-4273
Publisher	Academy of Management
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	49
Issue	4
Pages	759-777
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.22083032
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1536255