This case study uses two storytelling methods for analysis ? an advanced hermeneutic framework and an extended form of decision systems analysis (DSA) incorporating cognitive mapping ? to explore the strategic thought in building a software house around a philosophy of ?best practice?...

The principal objective here is to describe conceptual and research tools for achieving deeper sense-making of what happened and why it happened -including how participants interpret outcomes of what happened and the dynamics of emic (executive) and etic (researcher) sense-making. This article...

Purpose ? The principal objective here is to describe conceptual and research tools for achieving deeper sense-making of what happened and why it happened ?including how participants interpret outcomes of what happened and the dynamics of emic (executive) and etic (researcher) sense-making....

Thomas Friedman exhorts us to imagine the future [1] ? we urge marketers to invent the future, to learn the future faster, and to deliver the future earlier. Marketers are asked to develop scenarios about emerging technologies such as broadband wireless but more often than not have no education...

This essay elaborates on the usefulness of embracing complexity theory, modeling outcomes rather than directionality, and modeling complex rather than simple outcomes in strategic management. Complexity theory includes the tenet that most antecedent conditions are neither sufficient nor...

This essay elaborates on the usefulness of embracing complexity theory, modeling outcomes rather than directionality, and modeling complex rather than simple outcomes in strategic management. Complexity theory includes the tenet that most antecedent conditions are neither sufficient nor...

Applying complexity theory tenets in analyzing findings from prior research on the impacts of democracy and authoritarianism on countries' quality-of-life and happiness inform answering this question accurately. The study here constructs and empirically tests algorithms on how democracy and...

Amidst the catastrophe of COVID-19, segments of the population globally experienced changes in their perspectives on life and the desire to live a more fulfilling life. The study here examines this emergent trend with secondary data available as published survey reports and personal observations...