The Behavioral Foundations of Strategic Management
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The Behavioral Foundations of Strategic Management

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The Behavioral Foundations of Strategic Management

About this book

The Behavioral Foundations of Strategic Management

This book argues that rationality and market equilibrium assumptions are inconsistent with rigorous strategic management research so that strategic management should adopt behavioral assumptions.

When strategy scholars assume that firms can make better or worse decisions, they implicitly adopt a behavioral view. After examining the problems that rationality and equilibrium assumptions create, the author outlines the basics of a behavioral approach to strategic management. The book addresses how a behavioral approach relates to several major strains of strategic management scholarship and explores relevant methodological issues.

Overall, the book argues persuasively that a behavioral perspective offers the best foundation for strategic management scholarship.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781405124713
eBook ISBN
9781405142502
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Decision Making
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. 1 Introduction
  2. Objectives of Strategic Management Research
  3. Rigor in Strategy Research
  4. Rationality and Bounded Rationality
  5. Summary of the Argument
  6. Outline of the Book
  7. 2 Basics of a Behavioral Approach
  8. Basic Views of Decisions
  9. Bounded Rationality
  10. Routines
  11. Aspirations and Search
  12. Slack
  13. The Ecological or Selection Argument
  14. Two Criticisms of the Bounded Rationality View
  15. Summary
  16. 3 A Behavioral Critique of Rationality and Equilibrium
  17. The Behavioral Critique of Rationality
  18. Responses to the Critique
  19. Logical Problems of Rationality and Equilibrium
  20. Bounded Rationality in Economics
  21. Game Theory
  22. A Lack of Rigor
  23. Uses of Formal Models
  24. Summary
  25. 4 A Behaviorist’s Perspective on Current Strategy Approaches
  26. Behavioral Traditions in Strategy
  27. No Rules for Riches?
  28. The Resource-Based View
  29. Transaction Cost Economics
  30. Agency Theory
  31. Summary
  32. 5 Behavioral Methodology
  33. The Importance of Process
  34. Process and Testing
  35. Time Series and Endogeneity
  36. 6 Where Do We Go From Here?
  37. Management Strategy and External Strategy
  38. Competition
  39. Prescription
  40. Statistics
  41. Behavioral Theory of the Firm
  42. Concluding Remarks
  43. References
  44. Index