COLLABORATION OR PARADIGM SHIFT?: CAVEAT EMPTOR AND THE RISK OF ROMANCE WITH ECONOMIC MODELS FOR STRATEGY AND POLICY RESEARCH

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hirsch, Paul M.; Friedman, Ray; Koza, Mitchell P.
• 署名单位: Northwestern University; Harvard University; INSEAD Business School
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1.1.87
• 发表日期: 1990
• 页码: 87-97
• 关键词: economics; management; ORGANIZATION; strategy

摘要

While the formulation or strategy side of business policy has always drawn appropriately from economic theory, we caution that, taken to its logical extreme, economic theory ignores the importance of implementation, implies lack of choice in organization decision-making, and makes the organization a nonentity. In tins paper, we outline the fundamental differences between behavioral and economic approaches to business policy These differences are highlighted by an illustration of their divergent perspectives on corporate agency.