The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers : Past, Present, and Future

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2023-07

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en

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31
1033-1063

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Journal of Management Studies, Volume 60, issue 5

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Psychology-grounded research on heuristics and biases in decision making has become increasingly influential in the field of management studies. However, although this line of inquiry is recognized as a valuable perspective for advancing understanding of decision processes in the upper echelons of firms, extant research remains unbalanced, the bulk of previous endeavours having been focused on managerial overconfidence, with insights from more recent dual-process theory and ecological rationality conceptions of heuristics less explored. This introductory article to the special issue of the Journal of Management Studies, entitled ‘the heuristics and biases of top managers: Past, present, and future’, offers a reflective review of prior work addressing its focal theme and places the articles incorporated into the special issue within this broader context. In addition, it sets out a number of directions for future work, with a view to inspiring the continuing advancement of conceptual and empirical knowledge and management practice.

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Funding Information: Preparation of this article was part-supported through the award of a research grant to Yi Tang by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72232010).

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decision making, heuristics and biases, managerial and organizational cognition, rationality, risk and uncertainty, upper echelons

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Hodgkinson, G P, Burkhard, B, Foss, N J, Grichnik, D, Sarala, R M, Tang, Y & Van Essen, M 2023, ' The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers : Past, Present, and Future ', Journal of Management Studies, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1033-1063 . https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12937