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Reconsidering the Trade-off Between Expertise and Flexibility: a Cognitive Entrenchment Perspective
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Research suggests that as one acquires domain expertise, one loses flexibility with regard to problem solving, adaptation, and creative idea generation. Here, I reconsider this trade-off between expertise and flexibility by examining the concept of cognitive entrenchment—a high level of stability in one's domain schemas. Proposing that cognitive entrenchment varies not only with expertise but also with one's task environment and attentional focus, I contend that the inflexibility-related limitations of expertise can be circumvented.
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- Authors
- Dane, E.
- Affiliations
- Rice University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dane, Erik
- ORCID
- Dane, Erik
- Venue
- Academy of Management Review
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 2010-10
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 579-603
- ISSN
- 0363-7425 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-3807
- OpenAlex
- W2058398044
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- 603
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- 263
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- FWCI
- 11.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Academy of Management Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Keywords
- expertise, cognitive flexibility, problem solving, creative idea generation, task environment, attentional focus, cognitive inflexibility
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