Cognitive aids in strategy

Strategy research and practice has a long tradition of using frameworks, models, tools, and processes to describe, and guide the strategy work of managers. These are the cognitive aids that guide cognition, i.e., the way managers make sense of the world. Why, and how, do these tools interact with co...

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Other Authors Sund, Kristian J. (Editor), Galavan, Robert J. (Editor), Gustafsson, Robin (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesNew horizons in managerial and organizational cognition.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781837973187
DOI10.1108/S2397-5210202306
Physical Description1 online resource (228 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. What are cognitive aids in strategy? / Robin Gustafsson, Kristian J. Sund, and Robert J. Galavan
  • Chapter 2. Opening up alternatives for managers stuck with complexity / Robert Wright
  • Chapter 3. Testing the tool and not the theory / Nicolay Worren
  • Chapter 4. Extending upper echelons theory: How evaluators influence signal interpretation and evaluation / Cole E. Short and Timothy D. Hubbard
  • Chapter 5. Scenarios as cognitive aids: The necessary role of emotional labor in the cognition management of clients / Matthew Spaniol and Nicholas Rowland
  • Chapter 6. Music as a metaphorical aid for strategic development / Arthur Turner
  • Chapter 7. A neuroscience approach to entrepreneur pitch outcomes / Sohvi Heaton
  • Chapter 8. Strategy work with artifacts: Neurocognitive advantages of visual sense-building / Robin Gustafsson
  • Chapter 9. The relevance of social dynamics and dispositions on non-traditional aids to the strategic process / Davide Secchi.