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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”

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Articles and Resources for this IG&C

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Newsletter Winter 2024

SMJ Video Abstract | Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction

SEJ Video Abstract | Framing Exploration of Digital Opportunities at Hierarchical Interfaces

Blinding Idea Evaluation? New Experiment Reveals Little Bias in the Innovation Process

Strategic Responses to Crisis

Directed by Words: How Entrepreneurs Rely on Salient Frames to Devise a Market Entry Strategy

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Group Leadership Details

Daniella Laureiro-Martínez

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Chairperson
ETH Zurich

John Joseph

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Program Chair
University of California, Irvine

Felipe Csaszar

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Associate Program Chair
University of Michigan

REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE

Arianna Marchetti


London Business School

John Eklund


University of Southern California

Cyndi Man Zhang


Singapore Management University

Amy Zhao Ding


Technical University of Munich

Maciej Workiewicz


ESSEC Business School

Daniela Blettner


Simon Fraser University

APPOINTED OFFICERS

John Eklund

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Rep-at-Large, Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Award Officer
University of Southern California

Chengwei Liu

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Award Officer
ESMT Berlin

Cha Li

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Elections Officer
University of Texas at Austin

Cyndi Man Zhang

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Rep-at-Large, Elections Officer
Singapore Management University

Shelby Gai

Behavioral Strategy Interest Group Engagement Officer
Michigan State University

Arianna Marchetti

Behavioral Strategy Rep-at-Large, Engagement Officer
London Business School