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Managerial Cognition: Scale Development and Validation

Dhia A. Noman; Thabit Abdulaziz; Nahid Ramadan

Mechanisms and Machine Science • 2023

audience: factory-internalaudience: velaStrategy & Managementbridge (4)processed in meta-factory

Abstract

While there is extensive research on firms' capabilities and managerial cognition, it is quite surprising that only a few articles have empirically addressed the interactions and interdependencies between cognition and capabilities. Observers have noted that managerial cognition is a missing element in the dynamic capabilities (DC) theory, and the role of the manager has been overlooked by scholars. It may be because there is great difficulty in finding a valid and reliable instrument to measure managerial cognition, and the efforts to develop such an instrument have thus far been limited. This study contributes to the literature and provides a solution to fill this gap by developing and validating a scale to measure managerial cognition. This study develops a scale for environmental interpretation and resource fungibility as two dimensions constituting the managerial cognition construct. The major finding in this study is that managerial cognition is an integrative process to understand the complexities of the external and internal environments.

Keywords

Managerial Cognition · Environmental Interpretation · Resources Fungibility

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Models (1)

  • Managerial Cognition Model

    evidence: Medium

    Strategy • Competitive Advantage

    Primary factors

    Environmental InterpretationResource Fungibility

    Field domains

    StrategyOrganizational Behavior

Instruments (1)

  • Managerial Cognition Scale

    format: likert

    developer: Dhia A. Noman, Thabit Abdulaziz, Nahid Ramadan

    Constructs

    Managerial CognitionEnvironmental InterpretationResource Fungibility

    reliability: Cronbach's alpha for Environmental Interpretation: 0.920, Resource Fungibility: 0.870

Constructs (3)

  • Managerial Cognition

    MC_001

    The managerial mindset that helps managers to cope with the complexities of the external and internal environments.

    Domains

    Decision-Making & JudgmentLeadership

    Linked models

    Dynamic Capabilities Theory

    Managerial cognition is conceptualized as two dimensions: environmental interpretation and resource fungibility.

  • Environmental Interpretation

    EI_002

    The firms’ response to a general environment as interpreted by the decision-makers.

    Domains

    Decision-Making & JudgmentLeadership

    Linked models

    Dynamic Capabilities Theory

    Environmental interpretation is important to facilitate the firm to cope with the complexities of the external environment.

  • Resource Fungibility

    RF_003

    Identifying resources and understanding their fungibility and results in resource schemas.

    Domains

    Decision-Making & JudgmentLeadership

    Linked models

    Dynamic Capabilities Theory

    Resource fungibility is important to facilitate a firm's coping with the internal environment's complexities.

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