Behavioral Strategy Interest Group

The Behavioral Strategy Interest Group sponsors research that applies related behavioral and social science disciplines to strategic management theory and practices. The group promotes disciplinary and interdisciplinary research grounded in realistic assumptions about human motivation, cognition, emotion, decision-making, social interactions, networks, culture, and organizational systems. Research using diverse quantitative and qualitative methodologies is welcome.

Topic Areas of Research

• Bounded rationality in competitive markets
• Cognition and decision making; cognitive biases and heuristics
• Cognitive schema and management perception
• Individual and collective beliefs and ideologies
• Prospect theory, reference points, and risk-taking
• Emotions, motivations, personalities, and pathologies
• The psychology of bargaining and organizational politics
• Anomalies in strategic learning
• The social psychology of group decision making