Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality
批判了有限理性搜索在创业和战略研究中的主导地位,指出其无法解释经济新颖性的起源,并引入相邻可能和新可供性等概念,结合生物学与计算科学视角提出新见解。
The nature of economic opportunity has recently received significant attention in entrepreneurship, organization science and strategy. The notion of boundedly rational search on an ( NK ) opportunity landscape has been particularly relevant to these conversations and debates. We argue that the focus on bounded rationality and search is highly problematic for the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy and does not allow us to explain the origins of economic novelty. We contrast the NP problem with the frame problem to illustrate our point, and highlight the role of adjacent possibilities and novel affordances. We discuss the entrepreneurial and economic implications of these arguments by building on unique insights from biology, the natural and computational sciences. Copyright © 2014 Strategic Management Society.