Exploring the Problem-Finding and Problem-Solving Approach for Designing Organizations

Jack A. Nickerson, C. James Yen and Joseph T. Mahoney
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Jack A. Nickerson: Washington University in St Louis
C. James Yen: Washington University in St Louis
Joseph T. Mahoney: University of IL

Working Papers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business

Abstract: An emerging problem-finding and problem-solving approach suggests that management's discovering problems to solve, opportunities to seize, and challenges to respond to, are vital to organizations. This paper explores the extent to which the problem-finding and problem-solving approach can provide a foundation for joining the capabilities, dynamic capabilities, and governance perspectives as a way to help scholars and practitioners to coherently design organizations from the perspective of design science. The problem-finding and problem-solving approach offers a unit of analysis and a set of behavioral assumptions that enable us to address open questions within the extant literature and to propose new questions in management research.

Date: 2011-12
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