Evolution Cum Agency: Toward a Model of Strategic Foresight

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competitive strategy
managerial and organizational cognition
strategic positioning
strategy formulation
evolutionary economics
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Gavetti, Giovanni
Menon, Anoop R
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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.

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2016-01-01
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Strategy Science
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At the time of publication, author Giovanni Gavetti was affiliated with Dartmouth College. Currently, he is a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania.
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