A Prediction Contest

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dc.contributor.author	Hallin, Carina Antonia
dc.contributor.author	Andersen, Torben J.
dc.contributor.author	Tveterås, Sigbjørn
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-07
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-08T12:31:44Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-08T12:31:44Z
dc.date.issued	2012-08-08
dc.identifier.isbn	9788791815782
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8471
dc.description.abstract	The literature suggests that important strategic initiatives can derive from employees within the organization as they respond to needs and opportunities observed in daily operations. This seems to indicate that employees have a good sense of the firm’s operational capabilities observed through direct interactions with colleagues, customers and partners. Executives make their own judgments about the corporate capabilities from discussions with various managers, other executives and industry specialists. But, the information gathered by executives may be qualitatively different from the conditions sensed by the employees. So, we arranged a contest between operational capabilities assessed by employees and executives and the relationship to subsequent firm performance. Based on more than 400 individual data points collected from two medium-sized organizations over a period of eighteen months, advanced distributed lag time-series analyses show that the sensing of front-line employees (surprisingly) is a better medium-term predictor of organizational performance than executive judgments. These results have implications for the way organizations set up their management information and communication structure.	en_US
dc.format.extent	60	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	SMG Working Paper;2/2012
dc.subject.other	Dynamic capabilities	en_US
dc.subject.other	Interactive management controls	en_US
dc.subject.other	Operational capabilities	en_US
dc.subject.other	Performance prediction	en_US
dc.subject.other	Strategic response capabilities	en_US
dc.title	A Prediction Contest	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt12aug08 lbjl	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Strategi og Globalisering	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	SMG	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Institut for Strategic Management and Globalization	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	SMG	en_US
dc.idnumber	9788791815782	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2012	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	The Sensing of Frontline Employees Against Executive Expectations	en_US