Getting big too fast: Strategic dynamics with increasing returns and bounded rationality

Management Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 683-696

  Sterman, John D ^a   Henderson, Rebecca ^a   Beinhocker, Eric D ^b   Newman, Lee I ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Bounded rationality; Marketing; Simulation; Strategy

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; STRATEGIC DYNAMICS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 34247525929     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0673     Document Type: Article

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