Names + Goal

Question 1

Bracker (1980)

Answer 1

The historical development of the strategic management concept.

GOAL: examine how the concept of strategy has evolved into the field of strategic management and provide a definition

Question 2

Jensen & Meckling (1976)

Answer 2

Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure.

GOAL: develop and define the concept of agency and its relationship with the firm

Question 3

Hart (1989)

Answer 3

An economist’s perspective on the theory of the firm,

GOAL: a sense of how economists think about firms

Question 4

Holmstrom & Tirole (1989)

Answer 4

The theory of the firm

GOAL: Integration, capital structure ?

Question 5

Cyert & March (1963)

Answer 5

A Behavioral Theory of the Firm

GOAL: Develop a new theory of the firm based on behaviour, aimed to open up the “black box” of the internal workings of organizations.

Question 6

Argote & Greve, (2007)

Answer 6

A Behavioral Theory of the Firm – 40 years and counting: Introduction and impact

GOAL: Discuss the impact of the Cyert and March paper

Question 7

Ocasio (1997)

Answer 7

Towards an attention-based view of the firm

GOAL: Explain firm behaviour based on attention within the firm

Question 8

Greve, Henrich R. (1998)

Answer 8

Performance, aspirations, and risky organizational change.

GOAL: The impact of performance feedback on the probability of risky org change

Question 9

Moliterno et al. (2014)

Answer 9

Knowing your place: Social performance feedback in good times & bad times

Goal: Expand social performance feedback to normative and comparative refence groups (Survival & top performers)

Question 10

Hu et al. (2017)

Answer 10

Conflict inside and outside: Social comparisons and attention shifts in multidivisional firms

GOAL: Expand performance feedback to how consistent and inconsistent feedback from social comparisons with the economic and political reference points affects the dynamics of divisional attention allocation in adaptive aspirations

Question 11

Hambrick & Crossland (2018)

Answer 11

Appraisal of small, midsize, and large tent conceptions of this embryonic community

GOAL: No concrete way or framework of behavioural strategy. Discuss different views

Question 12

Powell et al. (2011)

Answer 12

Behavioral strategy

GOAL: argue the 3 different views and 4 core questions of behavioural strategy

Question 13

Levinthal (2011)

Answer 13

A behavioral approach to strategy - what’s the alternative?

GOAL: recognize that rationality cannot exist without behaviour

Question 14

Weick (1997)

Answer 14

The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA by Diane Vaughan

GOAL: discuss the failure of culture in NASA

Question 15

Rahmandad et al. (2020)

Answer 15

What makes dynamic strategic problems difficult? Evidence from an experimental study

GOAL: Explore the challenges of dynamic decision-making

Question 16

Chen et al. (2015)

Answer 16

Making the same mistake all over again: CEO overconfidence and corporate resistance to corrective feedback

GOAL: Show that CEO overconfidence is bad due to not learning

Question 17

Hossain & List (2012)

Answer 17

The behavioralist visits the factory: Increasing productivity using simple framing manipulations

GOAL: Can behavioral insights, such as simple framing manipulations, have economically significant effects in the field?