Strategy scholars are increasingly attempting to tackle complex global social and environmental issues (i.e. wicked problems); yet, many strategy approach these problems in the same way they business problems—by building causal models that seek optimize some form of organizational success. reduce complexity, focusing on significant variables explain salient outcomes. This problems, ironically, ...

At its best, strategic thinking yields an advantage needed to beat opponent. the least, it protects person from exploitation. In four studies, conducted in two countries, we used a simple number-guessing game, which one respondent wins by guessing number chosen another. We show that people generate numbers nonrandomly, and, on basis of this finding, predict and find nonrandom choice is advantag...

From a system thinking perspective, competition/cooperation boundaries govern the evolution of a firm’s adaptive strategic behaviour and drive it towards its desired objectives. By analyzing different scenarios using a system dynamic simulation approach and considering market competitive dynamics, this study explores the volume flexibility measure considering both the operating environment and ...