Effectuation was first proposed as an expert entrepreneur's decision-making framework
under uncertainty, but the applications of effectuation beyond the condition of uncertainty …

Entrepreneurship scholarship finds itself in something of a quandary concerning rationality.
While an increasingly large body of empirical work has found evidence of less-deliberative …

Abstract Research Summary Theories of crowdsourced search suggest that firms should
limit the search space from which solutions to the problem may be drawn by constraining the …

This article has three premises. First, much strategy work has tended to focus more on
search than shaping the business context. Second, prior research has yet to precisely define …

Drawing on current biology, we argue that the phase space of economic evolution is not
stable. Thus, there are no entailing laws of economic dynamics. In this sense, economic …

Exaptation, the emergence of latent functionality in existing artifacts, is an underexplored
mechanism of novelty generation in innovation. In this paper, we measure the frequency of …

A rarely acknowledged fact about organization theory (OT) is that many of its ideas stem
from the field of artificial intelligence (AI). For example, key OT concepts such as problemistic …

Optimization is about finding the best available object with respect to an objective function.
Mathematics and quantitative sciences have been highly successful in formulating problems …

This article features an interdisciplinary debate and dialogue about the nature of mind,
perception, and rationality. Scholars from a range of disciplines—cognitive science, applied …

Entrepreneurship is a learning process, yet the paths that entrepreneurs take to achieve
success and the resources they assemble differ widely. To better understand when and for …