Exploring the Problem-Finding and Problem-Solving Approach for Designing Organizations
- 1 February 2012
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Perspectives
- Vol. 26 (1), 52-72
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2011.0106
Abstract
An emerging problem-finding and problem-solving approach suggests that management's ability to discover problems to solve, opportunities to seize, and challenges to respond to is 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.Keywords
This publication has 90 references indexed in Scilit:
- Dynamic Capabilities: Current Debates and Future DirectionsBritish Journal of Management, 2009
- The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach: Challenges and CharacteristicsOrganization, 2007
- Why Firms Want to Organize Efficiently and what Keeps Them from Doing So: Inappropriate Governance, Performance, and Adaptation in a Deregulated IndustryAdministrative Science Quarterly, 2003
- Bounded rationality in the economics of organization: “Much cited and little used”Journal of Economic Psychology, 2003
- Testing alternative theories of the firm: transaction cost, knowledge-based, and measurement explanations for make-or-buy decisions in information servicesStrategic Management Journal, 1998
- Value‐based Business StrategyJournal of Economics & Management Strategy, 1996
- The management of resources and the resource of managementJournal of Business Research, 1995
- Strategy and organizational evolutionStrategic Management Journal, 1993
- Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and InnovationAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1990
- The structure of ill structured problemsArtificial Intelligence, 1974