Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy

By Giovanni Gavetti. 2012

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Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition (2015, background): “• Forward-looking search, which is based on the behavioural theory of the firm, emphasizes that individuals are bounded-rational, and therefore firm decision-making cannot be conceptualized as purely rational or analytic reasoning (Gavetti, 2012; Gavetti et al., 2012).”
Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality (2013, background): “But, more is needed, since the landscape metaphors, and associated methodologies and tools, are irreparably constrained in terms of their ability to actually explain novel, entrepreneurial and economic activity, despite the continuing efforts to try to do so (e.g., Gavetti, 2012).”
Modelling Bounded Rationality in Organizations: Progress and Prospects† (2015, background): “4 such as this one (there is an excellent one by Gavetti, Greve, Levinthal, & Ocasio (2012) in”
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities (2015, background): “Gavetti (2012), however, argues that some managers have the capacity to make associations between knowledge structures in different contexts that enable them to sense cognitively distant yet superior market opportunities.”
Moving Forward: Developing Theoretical Contributions in Management Studies (2014, background): “The computational image of the mind, for example, which initially emerged as an analogical extension of advances in artificial intelligence, has become a fundamental building block in cognitive psychology research and forms the core of the behavioural theory of the firm (e.g., Gavetti, 2012).”
The Microfoundations Movement in Strategy and Organization Theory (2015, background): “Instead, scholars take individual-level theories (say, of rationality or cognition) and apply them directly to the organization as a whole (Gavetti, 2012).”
The Theory-Based View: Economic Actors as Theorists (2017, unknown): “…Levinthal, 2011; Powell et al., 2011; Sibony et al., 2017), which emphasize decision biases or highlight simple heuristics, distant search or association as vehicles to target value creation and generate strategic heterogeneity (Artinger et al., 2015; Bingham and Eisenhardt, 2011; Gavetti, 2012).”
To Shape or Adapt: Knowledge Problems, Epistemologies, and Strategic Postures under Knightian Uncertainty (2020, background): “…the applicability of current knowledge to effectively understand the uncertain situation,while providing opportunities for generating and propagating novel and preferred representations (Gavetti, 2012; Khaire & Wadhwani, 2010; Navis & Glynn, 2010; Rindova, Petkova, & Kotha, 2007; Zuzul, 2019).”
Corporate Foresight and its Impact on Firm Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis (2018, background): “The aim of this phase is to gain an insight advantage, which permits firms to identify a superior course of action that is distant from the status quo of the industry (Gavetti, 2012; Gavetti and Menon, 2016).”