Management Research

Management Research: How a Firm’s Information System Helps Develop a Set of Heuristics

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This is the final episode in our mini-series on heuristics. In this episode, I present our conceptual model that explains how information systems may help firms develop efficient heuristics. Yet, the number of heuristics may go at odds with the cognitive load. If would want to know more, read our paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344743908_The_Role_of_Information_Systems_for_Firm-wide_Heuristics_Development

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: Relational Models as Heuristics

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In this episode, I present you with one of our theories. We apply the Relational Models Theory in the firm domain. We argue that each relational model can be seen as a set of heuristics that might help firms increase the quality of communication within the team and reduce the number of conflicts. In our paper, we also deduce the quality of a firm's IT capability based on the congruency of relationships within a firm. If you want to know more, try our paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344744083_Understanding_microfoundations_of_IT_capability_using_anthropologic_heuristics

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: Universal Heuristics at an Organisational Level

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Today we talk about the universal heuristics at the level of an organisation. Together with my colleague Professor Jürgen Moormann, we wrote a paper where we argue that there is something like System 1 processes, intuitive processes that run at the level of an organisation. More details in this episode!

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: Individual Heuristics at an Organisational Level

Welcome to the next episode in our mini-series on heuristics!

 

Today, we approach the rules that organisations develop individually to address the complexity of decision-making. I call these heuristics - individual heuristics at the organisational level. In the next episode, we will talk about universal organisational heuristics.

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Eugene (Yevgen) 

Management Research: Individual Heuristics at an Individual Level

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Finally, I continue with my mini-series on heuristics! This time, we talk about one of our papers, where we proposed to classify heuristics at individual and organisational levels, each containing individual and universal heuristics types. So, yes, it sounds weird - "individual individual level heuristics" but it seems to be correct. Each individual applies universal heuristics (those that I mentioned in one of my previous episodes, e.g. take-the-first or take-the-best heuristics) as well as s/he might have her/his individual explicit rules of thumb, such as "never touch a running system". The logic of System 1 information processing will still apply. You can discover more about this idea in this episode!

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: Fututres Literacy - Mika Story

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Today, I share a story that appeared as a part of one of the tasks during a future(s) literacy workshop. In this task, participants have to change (or receive a change from the moderator) one of the main assumptions in our worldview. E.g. "what if there is no money?", "what if there is no competition?", "what if we cannot see the stars anymore?", or "what if research is not sponsored centrally but needs to collect via platforms like Kickstarter?". Your team has to write a story that elucidates what will happen to the rest of the world. 

This episode is a short summary of our story about a young researcher Mika who discovered that the only way to collect money for her research is to announce her topic via Kickstarter-like platforms.

Enjoy, comment, share your thoughts about your vision of this future and... let me know if you want to have more episodes on storytelling!

 

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: Futures Literacy vs Path Dependency

Welcome to the next episode of my podcast!

I decided to take a short break from our mini-series on heuristics. This and the next episode are dedicated to the topic of futures literacy. I have recently attended a futures literacy workshop and would like to share some thoughts with you.

I am going to talk about a theoretical contradiction between future(s) and path dependency. I am eager to hear your opinion about the topic in the comments section below. Or drop me an email with your ideas.

 

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: A Heuristic on How to Select Whiskey

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As promised, I would like to share a situation where we applied the heuristics approach (System 1 thinking) to make a good decision. Moreover, System 2 thinking could not help us in this situation. The situation was a selection of a souvenir from Schotland - whiskey. Probably, some whiskey lovers would not agree with our approach but some would (and did when I talked to some business people during my seminar on heuristic decision-making in business).

I hope this approach will help you in your decision-making. Next week, I plan to explain the difference between individual and universal heuristics and how to become efficient and effective. 

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: Heuristics Examples

Hello, my dear friends, guests, and followers!

Today, I continue talking about the topic of heuristics. At the moment, we still remain at the individual level. But in a few episodes, we will move towards organisational heuristics. 

Today, I will provide you with some examples. Enjoy, apply, share, and subscribe - it does matter!

 

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Eugene (Yevgen)

Management Research: Heuristics as a Necessary Evolutionary Mechanism

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Today, I talk again about heuristics. This time, however, we take the point of view of Gerd Gigerenzer - a big proponent of Systems 1 thinking. Professor Gigerenzer criticised the approach by Kahneman and Tversky and showed how to "make the bias disappear". 

Enjoy and apply this approach to make good/better decisions!

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Eugene (Yevgen)