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"Exploring the Problem-Finding and Problem-Solving Approach for Designing Organizations"
Jack A. Nickerson, C. James Yen, and Joseph T. Mahoney
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Jack A. Nickerson
Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy
Washington University in St. Louis, John M. Olin Business School
Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
USA
314-935-6374
nickerson@wustl.edu
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Second Author :
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C. James Yen
Organizational Behavior and Strategy
Washington University in St. Louis, John M. Olin Business School
Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
USA
jamesyen@wustl.edu
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| Abstract : |
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| An emerging problem-finding and problem-solving approach suggests that management’s discovering problems to solve, opportunities to seize, and challenges to respond to, are vital to organizations. This paper explores the extent to which the problem-finding and problem-solving approach can provide a foundation for joining the capabilities, dynamic capabilities, and governance perspectives as a way to help scholars and practitioners to coherently design organizations from the perspective of design science. The problem-finding and problem-solving approach offers a unit of analysis and a set of behavioral assumptions that enable us to address open questions within the extant literature and to propose new questions in management research. |
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| Manuscript Received :
2011
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| Manuscript Published :
2011
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