To Shape or Adapt: Knowledge Problems, Epistemologies, and Strategic Postures under Knightian Uncertainty

By Violina P. Rindova, Hugh Courtney. Academy of Management Review, 2020

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Despite the longstanding recognition of the importance of uncertainty in strategy, strategy researchers have given limited attention to the distinct challenges and processes involved in strategy ma...

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Strategic Management Theory in a Post‐Pandemic and Non‐Ergodic World (2020, background): “For example, Rindova and Courtney (2020) argued that firms can develop adaptive strategies or shaping strategies to deal with uncertainty.”
Strategy and Uncertainty: Resource-Based View, Strategy-Creation View, and the Hybrid Between Them (2021, background): “As Rindova and Courtney (2020) propose, there are two contrasting strategies for dealing with high uncertainty markets—that is, adapting and shaping.”
Supply Chain Viability and the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual and formal generalisation of four major adaptation strategies (2021, methodology): “…for SC adaptation Technology adoption in SCs has reached an unprecedented scale, entailing inherent adaptability inside the SCs themselves (Blackhurst, Das, and Ivanov 2021; Dubey et al. 2021; Frazzon, Freitag, and Ivanov 2021; Ivanov and Dolgui 2020a; Ivanov, Dolgui, and Sokolov 2019).”