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Organizational learning

the bias that arises when observers learn only from surviving firms, so risky practices look more successful than they are because failures are missing from the sample.

In organizational learning, undersampling of failure refers to the bias that arises when observers learn only from surviving firms, so risky practices look more successful than they are because failures are missing from the sample. This meaning comes from Denrell (2003) in Organization Science.[1]

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References

Denrell, J. (2003). Vicarious Learning, Undersampling of Failure, and the Myths of Management. Organization Science, 14(3), 227-243. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.14.2.227.15164

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