Strategy Process

Hakonsson, Eskildsen, Argote, Monster, Burton, & Obel on emotions and team decisions.

We analyze performance and emotions as antecedents and consequences of team strategic decisions to explore a new routine versus exploiting an existing one. In a laboratory study, we examine team…

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If You Want to Innovate, Follow These 5 Steps

How do innovators from lower levels of an organization gain approval for their innovations especially when their ideas do not readily fit their organization’s strategy? To explore this question, we…

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Time and Space in Strategy Discourse: Implications for Intertemporal Choice

Executives often prioritize maximizing immediate returns over investing to build a long‐term competitive advantage. How they think about the future offers one explanation for this short‐termism. This article distinguishes two…

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On the effects of authority on peer motivation

When managers use their (legitimate) power to take decisions on behalf of their staff, they risk setting back employees and making them detach from the firm. This danger is particularly…

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Kauppila, Bizzi and Obstfeld: Connecting and Creating

To innovate, managers are often advised to make strategic decisions based on changes in their external business environment. Our research suggests that managers should also consider how strategic decision‐making enables…

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Rockart & Dutt on competitive advantages from learning

This paper examines differences in the rate and potential of firms’ capability development trajectories. Capability development trajectories are the paths over which firms’ capabilities change with experience and other activities.…

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Cognitive Flexibility and Adaptive DecisionMaking

Humans are creatures of habits. We tend to prefer known courses of action over new ones. In many cases, habits are good. However, when things change in unpredictable ways, the…

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Laureiro-Martinez, Brusoni, Canessa, Zollo – Neuroscience & explore-exploit

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From Necessity to Opportunity: Scaling Bricolage

How do organizations emerge, survive, and scale in resource-scarce environments? Traditional scaling models tend to rely on considerable financial resources and companies often struggle to adjust to diverse contexts. In…

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A universe of stories: Mobilising narrative practises during transformative change

How can storytelling be used to influence acceptance of an ongoing organizational transformation? In this article, we try to answer this question by examining how, over three decades, Italian company…

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