FORESIGHT, COMPLEXITY AND STRATEGY (2007)
David Lane, Robert Maxfield, Win Farrell, Dick Foster, John Hagel, Franco Malerba, ...
What is a strategy? The answer to this question ought to depend on the foresight horizon: how far ahead, and how much, the strategist thinks he can foresee. When the very structure of the firm's...
David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield, Michael Cohen, Jim Dickey, Stuart Dreyfus, ...
In this essay, we argue that rational choice (RC) provides an inadequate foundation for a theory of economic action. After defining RC sufficiently broadly to encompass much of the bounded...
Ontological uncertainty and innovation
This paper explores the relationship between uncertainty and innovation. It distinguishes three kinds of uncertainty: truth uncertainty, semantic uncertainty, and ontological uncertainty, the latter...
Foresight, Complexity, and Strategy
What is a strategy? The answer to this question ought to depend on the foresight horizon: how far ahead, and how much, the strategist thinks he can forsee. When the very structure of the firm's world...
David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield, Luigi Orsenigo
In this essay, we argue that the rational choice (RC) provides an inadequate foundation for a theory of economic action. After defining RC sufficiently broadly to encompass much of the bounded...