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Dear colleagues

Apologies for cross-postings. I recently posted a request for behavioral strategy textbooks  or general strategy textbooks with a chapter on behavioral strategy. Attached is a summary of responses I received. Thanks to all who contributed! While many were interested in the outcome of the query few had something to contribute. It seems there is an unmet demand for a Behavioral Strategy Textbook.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Stefan

Per Bylund:

This may not directly answer your text book question, but it is related. Information Age Publishing is publishing a book series on behavioral strategy, edited by T.K. Das, which you might find useful:

http://www.infoagepub.com/series/Research-in-Behavioral-Strategy

I don't know much about the individual volumes, but I know the "emerging perspectives" volume (which seems interesting) is currently in press.

Daniel P. Forbes:

As you may know, Phil Bromiley has a short, readable book called "Behavioral foundations of strategic management".  It would be advanced for many undergrads, but accessible to many MBAs, I believe.

Konrad Jamro:

As a PhD student, I found Behavioral Foundations for Strategic Management by Phil Bromiley as a very good book, perhaps more suitable for PhD than MBA/undergrad students.

Philip Bromiley:

I used the Mintzberg et al strategy text – it was a bunch of readings.  I think Gerry Johnson's text was more behavioral.

Philip also commented on his own book mentioned above: "I had always thought of it as more directed at academics than as a text, but it was used as a text in doctoral courses."

Sheen S. Levine  pointed out that there is a Behavioral Strategy PDW at the Academy of Management, an opportunity to meet like minded people. An official announcement will appear later this week.

Orin C. Davis:

I love Dixit and Nalebuff's Thinking Strategically

Frank Shipper

My colleagues and I have written a book that will be out in mid-August from Palgrave-Macmillan on employee owned companies. We believe that the research now suggests that this is an effective alternative for many industries. There should be some materials on it at the AOM Meeting in August at the Palgrave-Macmillan booth. Below is a description of it and just a few of the endorsements that it has received:

Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership

This book focuses on highly progressive organizations that have adopted the exciting new business strategy of Shared Entrepreneurship. These firms engage in cutting edge practices such as shared ownership, shared leadership, shared collaboration, and other processes that foster freedom of employee action.  Worker-owners are engaged and rewarded for their contributions and everyone has the opportunity to act with an entrepreneurial spirit. Innovation bubbles-up from everywhere resulting in high organizational success and individual growth. In contrast, the traditional hierarchical business model of many typical firms inhibits creativity and interferes with competitiveness. Such companies, usually located in high labor cost countries, suffer inordinately during recessions and can be stifled by rigidity and stagnation even during the best of times. All the while organizations that practice shared entrepreneurship are continuously developing innovative products, processes, services, and organizational procedures that allow them to develop, evolve, prosper and be highly competitive. These vanguard companies, many of which are featured in this book, include the likes of Southwest Airlines, W. L. Gore & Associates, Herman Miller, and NUCOR, to name just a few. Also, exemplary smaller firms are profiled, from both high and low-tech industries that have adopted shared entrepreneurship practices and enjoyed remarkable results. Shared Entrepreneurship is a book that describes A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership and the innovative entrepreneurial benefits it can help unleash. In addition, it provides an inside look at how organizations, both large and small, are already taking this journey to success.

Here are some additional articles that I myself found interesting:

·         Powell, T. C., Lovallo, D., & Fox, C. R. (2011). Behavioral strategy. Strategic Management Journal, 32(13), 1369-1386.

·         Powell, T. C. (2011). Neurostrategy. Strategic Management Journal, 32(13), 1484-1499.

·         Lovallo, D., & Sibony, O. (2010). The case for behavioral strategy. McKinsey Quarterly, 2, 30-43.

·         Hodgkinson, G. P., & Healey, M. P. (2011). Psychological foundations of dynamic capabilities: Reflexion and reflection in strategic management. Strategic Management Journal, 32(13), 1500-1516.

·         Hodgkinson, G. P., Sadler-Smith, E., Burke, L. A., Claxton, G., & Sparrow, P. R. (2009). Intuition in organizations: Implications for strategic management. Long Range Planning, 42(3), 277-297.

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