Evolution Cum Agency: Toward a Model of Strategic Foresight

Giovanni Gavetti () and Anoop Menon ()
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Giovanni Gavetti: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Anoop Menon: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Strategy Science, 2016, vol. 1, issue 3, 207-233

Abstract: This study examines the origin of the strategic innovation that changed the face of financial services—Charles Merrill’s financial supermarket business model—through three well-known and largely juxtaposed conceptual models of strategic foresight. Our study, whose purpose, business historical focus, and structure mirrors Graham Allison’s famous “Conceptual Models of the Cuban Missile Crisis,” allows us to make three contributions. First, it sharpens our understanding of the models we used in the study. Second, it provides the foundations of an integrated view and model of strategic foresight that suggests disciplined strategic foresight is possible, understandable, and replicable within some precise boundaries. Finally, it suggests directions for future behavioral strategy work.

Keywords: competitive strategy; managerial and organizational cognition; strategic positioning; strategy formulation; evolutionary economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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