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EAD-5871: Tecnologia e Economia de Empresas (Economia da Inovação)
Economics of Industrial Innovation
Prof. Dr. Paulo Roberto Feldmann
Class 11: Companies and Organization for Innovation II
“Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning” (73)
Nei Grando
October, 18 - 2016
UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
FACULDADE DE ECONOMIA, ADMINISTRAÇÃO E CONTABILIDADE
DEPARTAMENTO DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO
PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO
The Article and the Author
The Author: James Gardner March (born 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio) is Jack
Steele Parker professor emeritus at Stanford University and the Stanford
Graduate School of Education, best known for his research on
organizations, his (jointly with Richard Cyert) A behavioral theory of the
firm and organizational decision making. [ more ]
“Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning”
Exploration, Exploitation and The Tradeoff
The Tradeoff
Exploration: long-term, risky, uncertain.
Exploitation: short-term, immediate, certain benefits.
Only Exploration: “... the costs of experimentation without any of its
benefits.” Many undeveloped ideas, little distinctive competence.
Only Exploitation: Locked-in to suboptimal equilibria.
Can not to adapt to changing circumstances.
Maintaining an appropriate balance between exploration and
exploitation is a primary factor in system survival and prosperity.
Both exploration and exploitation are essential for organizations, but they
compete for scarce resources. As a result, organizations make
explicit and implicit choices between the two.
Exploration of
NEW
Possibilities
Exploitation of
OLD
Certainties
“Exploration
includes things
captured by
terms such as
search, variation,
risk taking,
experimentation,
play, flexibility,
discovery,
innovation.”
“Exploitation
includes such
things as
refinement,
choice,
production,
efficiency,
selection,
implementation,
execution.”
Implicit and Explicit Choices [ about resource allocation ]
Explicit: Calculated decisions about investment and strategy.
Implicit: Organizational forms and customs. Examples:
rules and practices, the ways in which targets are set and changed, incentive systems, hiring practices, …
“Understanding the choices and improving the balance between exploration and exploitation are
complicated by the fact that returns from the two options vary not only with respect to their
expected values, but also with respect to their variability, their timing, and their distribution within
and beyond the organization.
Processes for allocating resources between them, therefore, embody intertemporal,
interinstitutional, and interpersonal comparisons, as well as risk preferences.”
Feedback to exploitation occurs much more quickly.
Increasing returns can lead to lock-in at suboptimal equilibria.
Because the issue occurs in multiple Levels: Individual
level; Organizational level; and Social system level.
Why to find ballance is so ?
Mutual Learning in the Development of Knowledge
Organizational Code
Individual
Instruction
Indoctrination
Exemplification
Languages
Beliefs
Practices
Organizational Code
Individual
This form of mutual learning has consequences both for the individuals involved and for an
organization as a whole. In particular, the trade-off between exploration and exploitation in
mutual learning involves conflicts between short-run and long-run concerns and between gains to
individual knowledge and gains to collective knowledge.
Beliefs
A Model of Mutual Learning
Simple model of the development and diffusion of organizational knowledge:
(1) There is an external “reality”, independent of beliefs.
It has m dimensions, each with a value of 1 or -1, with (independent) probability of 0.5.
(2) At each time period, beliefs about reality are held by each of n individuals and by an organizational code.
For each of the m dimensions of reality, each belief has a value of 1, 0, or -1.
(3) Individuals modify their beliefs continuously as a consequence of socialization into the organization and
education into its code of beliefs, with probability p1 (effectiveness of socialization).
(4) At the same time, the organizational code adapts to the beliefs of those individuals whose beliefs correspond
with reality on more dimensions than does the code. The probability that the beliefs of the code will be adjusted to
conform to the dominant belief within the superior group on any particular dimension is p2.
Initial [simulation] conditions: a reality m-tuple (m dimensions, each of which has a random value of 1 or -1); an
organizational code m-tuple (each of which is initially 0); and n individual m-tuples (with values equal 1, 0, or -1).
The process begins with an organizational code characterized by neutral beliefs on all dimensions and a set of
individuals with varying beliefs that exhibit, on average, no knowledge. Over time, the organizational code affects
the beliefs of individuals, even while it is being affected by those beliefs. The beliefs of individuals do not affect the
beliefs of other individuals directly but only through affecting the code. The effects of reality are also indirect.
Neither the individuals nor the organizations experience reality. Improvement in knowledge comes by the code
mimicking the beliefs of superior individuals and by individuals mimicking the code.
Basic Properties of the Model in a CLOSED System
Within closed system, … adjustments in beliefs serves to
eliminate differences between the individuals and the code.
The beliefs of individuals and the code converge over time.
Effects of learning rates:
The highest equilibrium knowledge occurs when the code
learns rapidly from individuals whose socialization to the
code is slow.
The gains to individuals from adapting rapidly to the code are
offset by second-order losses stemming from the fact that code
can learn only from individuals who deviate from it.
Slow learning (maintains diversity longer), thereby
providing the exploration that allows the knowledge
found in the organizational code to improve.
Slow Socialization,
Code learns fast.
Basic Properties of the Model in a CLOSED System
Effects of learning rate heterogeneity:
The fact that fast individual learning from the
code tends to have a favorable first-order
effect on individual knowledge but an adverse
effect on improvement in organizational
knowledge and thereby on long-term
individual improvement, suggests that there
might be some advantage to having a mix of
fast and slow learners in an organization.
The fraction of slow learners in an organization
is a significant factor in organizational learning.
Mix of fast and
slow learners.
Basic Properties of the Model in a More OPEN System
Effects of personnel turnover:
The combination of slow learning and rapid
turnover leads to inadequate exploitation.
Rapid socialization tends to reduce
exploration.
A modest level of turnover, by introducing less
socialized people (newcomers who deviate
from the code in a favorable way), increases
exploration, and thereby improves aggregate
knowledge.
[ If socialization is fast, some turnover is good. ]
Basic Properties of the Model in a More OPEN System
Effects of environmental turbulence:
Exogenous environmental change makes
adaptation essential, but it also makes learning
from experience difficult. Mutual learning has a
dramatic long-run degenerate property under
these conditions.
With some turnover, the degeneracy is avoided
and a moderate level of code knowledge is
sustained in the face of environmental change.
Knowledge and Ecologies of Competition
In the competitive ecology, learning occurs and knowledge is used. In External competitive processes
- organizations pursues the scarce environmental resources and opportunities. In Internal competitive
processes - individuals pursues the scarce organizational resources and opportunities.
In bilateral competition involving normal performance distributions, learning that increases the mean
always pays off, and changes in the variance have no effect. If there is more than 1 competitor,
increases in either the mean or the variance have a positive effect on competitive advantage.
Increased knowledge seems often to reduce the variability of performance rather than to increase it.
Knowledge makes performance more reliable.
As work is standardized, as techniques are learned, variability, both in the time required to accomplish
tasks and in the quality of task performance, is reduced.
In the long run, the mean and the reliability of a performance distribution, represent
the result of organizational strategical choices between investments in learning
[exploration] and in consumption of the fruits of current capabilities [exploitation].

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Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning

  • 1. EAD-5871: Tecnologia e Economia de Empresas (Economia da Inovação) Economics of Industrial Innovation Prof. Dr. Paulo Roberto Feldmann Class 11: Companies and Organization for Innovation II “Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning” (73) Nei Grando October, 18 - 2016 UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO FACULDADE DE ECONOMIA, ADMINISTRAÇÃO E CONTABILIDADE DEPARTAMENTO DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO
  • 2. The Article and the Author The Author: James Gardner March (born 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio) is Jack Steele Parker professor emeritus at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, best known for his research on organizations, his (jointly with Richard Cyert) A behavioral theory of the firm and organizational decision making. [ more ] “Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning”
  • 3. Exploration, Exploitation and The Tradeoff The Tradeoff Exploration: long-term, risky, uncertain. Exploitation: short-term, immediate, certain benefits. Only Exploration: “... the costs of experimentation without any of its benefits.” Many undeveloped ideas, little distinctive competence. Only Exploitation: Locked-in to suboptimal equilibria. Can not to adapt to changing circumstances. Maintaining an appropriate balance between exploration and exploitation is a primary factor in system survival and prosperity. Both exploration and exploitation are essential for organizations, but they compete for scarce resources. As a result, organizations make explicit and implicit choices between the two. Exploration of NEW Possibilities Exploitation of OLD Certainties “Exploration includes things captured by terms such as search, variation, risk taking, experimentation, play, flexibility, discovery, innovation.” “Exploitation includes such things as refinement, choice, production, efficiency, selection, implementation, execution.”
  • 4. Implicit and Explicit Choices [ about resource allocation ] Explicit: Calculated decisions about investment and strategy. Implicit: Organizational forms and customs. Examples: rules and practices, the ways in which targets are set and changed, incentive systems, hiring practices, … “Understanding the choices and improving the balance between exploration and exploitation are complicated by the fact that returns from the two options vary not only with respect to their expected values, but also with respect to their variability, their timing, and their distribution within and beyond the organization. Processes for allocating resources between them, therefore, embody intertemporal, interinstitutional, and interpersonal comparisons, as well as risk preferences.” Feedback to exploitation occurs much more quickly. Increasing returns can lead to lock-in at suboptimal equilibria. Because the issue occurs in multiple Levels: Individual level; Organizational level; and Social system level. Why to find ballance is so ?
  • 5. Mutual Learning in the Development of Knowledge Organizational Code Individual Instruction Indoctrination Exemplification Languages Beliefs Practices Organizational Code Individual This form of mutual learning has consequences both for the individuals involved and for an organization as a whole. In particular, the trade-off between exploration and exploitation in mutual learning involves conflicts between short-run and long-run concerns and between gains to individual knowledge and gains to collective knowledge. Beliefs
  • 6. A Model of Mutual Learning Simple model of the development and diffusion of organizational knowledge: (1) There is an external “reality”, independent of beliefs. It has m dimensions, each with a value of 1 or -1, with (independent) probability of 0.5. (2) At each time period, beliefs about reality are held by each of n individuals and by an organizational code. For each of the m dimensions of reality, each belief has a value of 1, 0, or -1. (3) Individuals modify their beliefs continuously as a consequence of socialization into the organization and education into its code of beliefs, with probability p1 (effectiveness of socialization). (4) At the same time, the organizational code adapts to the beliefs of those individuals whose beliefs correspond with reality on more dimensions than does the code. The probability that the beliefs of the code will be adjusted to conform to the dominant belief within the superior group on any particular dimension is p2. Initial [simulation] conditions: a reality m-tuple (m dimensions, each of which has a random value of 1 or -1); an organizational code m-tuple (each of which is initially 0); and n individual m-tuples (with values equal 1, 0, or -1). The process begins with an organizational code characterized by neutral beliefs on all dimensions and a set of individuals with varying beliefs that exhibit, on average, no knowledge. Over time, the organizational code affects the beliefs of individuals, even while it is being affected by those beliefs. The beliefs of individuals do not affect the beliefs of other individuals directly but only through affecting the code. The effects of reality are also indirect. Neither the individuals nor the organizations experience reality. Improvement in knowledge comes by the code mimicking the beliefs of superior individuals and by individuals mimicking the code.
  • 7. Basic Properties of the Model in a CLOSED System Within closed system, … adjustments in beliefs serves to eliminate differences between the individuals and the code. The beliefs of individuals and the code converge over time. Effects of learning rates: The highest equilibrium knowledge occurs when the code learns rapidly from individuals whose socialization to the code is slow. The gains to individuals from adapting rapidly to the code are offset by second-order losses stemming from the fact that code can learn only from individuals who deviate from it. Slow learning (maintains diversity longer), thereby providing the exploration that allows the knowledge found in the organizational code to improve. Slow Socialization, Code learns fast.
  • 8. Basic Properties of the Model in a CLOSED System Effects of learning rate heterogeneity: The fact that fast individual learning from the code tends to have a favorable first-order effect on individual knowledge but an adverse effect on improvement in organizational knowledge and thereby on long-term individual improvement, suggests that there might be some advantage to having a mix of fast and slow learners in an organization. The fraction of slow learners in an organization is a significant factor in organizational learning. Mix of fast and slow learners.
  • 9. Basic Properties of the Model in a More OPEN System Effects of personnel turnover: The combination of slow learning and rapid turnover leads to inadequate exploitation. Rapid socialization tends to reduce exploration. A modest level of turnover, by introducing less socialized people (newcomers who deviate from the code in a favorable way), increases exploration, and thereby improves aggregate knowledge. [ If socialization is fast, some turnover is good. ]
  • 10. Basic Properties of the Model in a More OPEN System Effects of environmental turbulence: Exogenous environmental change makes adaptation essential, but it also makes learning from experience difficult. Mutual learning has a dramatic long-run degenerate property under these conditions. With some turnover, the degeneracy is avoided and a moderate level of code knowledge is sustained in the face of environmental change.
  • 11. Knowledge and Ecologies of Competition In the competitive ecology, learning occurs and knowledge is used. In External competitive processes - organizations pursues the scarce environmental resources and opportunities. In Internal competitive processes - individuals pursues the scarce organizational resources and opportunities. In bilateral competition involving normal performance distributions, learning that increases the mean always pays off, and changes in the variance have no effect. If there is more than 1 competitor, increases in either the mean or the variance have a positive effect on competitive advantage. Increased knowledge seems often to reduce the variability of performance rather than to increase it. Knowledge makes performance more reliable. As work is standardized, as techniques are learned, variability, both in the time required to accomplish tasks and in the quality of task performance, is reduced. In the long run, the mean and the reliability of a performance distribution, represent the result of organizational strategical choices between investments in learning [exploration] and in consumption of the fruits of current capabilities [exploitation].