New Frontiers in Behavioral Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 11453
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Strategy

Behavioral strategy: mapping the trends, sources and intellectual evolution

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil Anwar ◽  
Aqsa Bibi ◽  
Nisar Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Strategic Management Journal ◽  
Behavioral Strategy ◽  
Management Journal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Scopus Database

PurposeThis paper presents a comprehensive review of academic research dedicated to the field of Behavioral Strategy. Based on a series of Bibliometric and network analyses, the paper identifies the prominent trend and growth patterns pertaining to the evolution of this important strategic management subfield; it documents which particular journals, articles and authors have most influenced its development, and it maps the intellectual structure and network of authors, publications and countries. Finally, the paper considers the substantive research themes emerging from the analyses reported, in terms of their implications for future work.Design/methodology/approachThe authors undertook a series of Bibliometric and network analyses of 217 relevant articles, published between 1975 and 2020, in journals listed in the Scopus database, using R-studio and VOSviewer. Articles incorporated in the study were selected based on relevant key terms searched from the title, abstract and list of keywords associated with each publication.FindingsThe results demonstrate that behavioral strategy has enjoyed robust and sustained growth, with widespread impact across many areas of the heterogeneous business and management field as a whole. Three distinct periods are identified: an infancy stage (prior to 1999); a steady growth stage (1999–2010); and a take-off stage (2011 onwards). The top three journals in terms of content coverage, based on the number of relevant articles published in relation to behavioral strategy, are Strategic Management Journal, Advances in Strategic Management (AiSM) and the Journal of Management, while the top three most influential journals, in terms of citations pertaining to Behavioral Strategy, based on an analysis of citations in the Scopus database, are Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives and Journal of Management Studies. Gerard P. Hodgkinson and Thomas C. Powell are the most prolific authors. The emerging themes based on intellectual structures have been identified as Behavioral Strategy, Behavioral Theory of Firm; Strategic Leadership and Dynamic Capabilities; and Strategic Cognition and Decision Making.Practical implicationsThe study contributes to knowledge advancement concerning Behavioral Strategy by opening new possibilities to discover important research areas.Originality/valueThe study is the first of its kind on Behavioral Strategy providing a comprehensive systematic literature review.

scholarly journals Greater effects of mutual cooperation and defection on subsequent cooperation in direct reciprocity games than generalized reciprocity games: Behavioral experiments and analysis using multilevel models

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. e0242607
Author(s):  
Yutaka Horita
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Cooperative Behavior ◽  
The Other ◽  
Behavioral Strategy ◽  
Behavioral Models ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Shift Strategy ◽  
Better Than

Reciprocity toward a partner’s cooperation is a fundamental behavioral strategy underlying human cooperation not only in interactions with familiar persons but also with strangers. However, a strategy that takes into account not only one’s partner’s previous action but also one’s own previous action—such as a win-stay lose-shift strategy or variants of reinforcement learning—has also been considered an advantageous strategy. This study investigated empirically how behavioral models can be used to explain the variances in cooperative behavior among people. To do this, we considered games involving either direct reciprocity (an iterated prisoner’s dilemma) or generalized reciprocity (a gift-giving game). Multilevel models incorporating inter-individual behavioral differences were fitted to experimental data using Bayesian inference. The results indicate that for these two types of games, a model that considers both one’s own and one’s partner’s previous actions fits the empirical data better than the other models. In the direct reciprocity game, mutual cooperation or defection—rather than relying solely on one’s partner’s previous actions—affected the increase or decrease, respectively, in subsequent cooperation. Whereas in the generalized reciprocity game, a weaker effect of mutual cooperation or defection on subsequent cooperation was observed.

Prosocial Behaviour as a Condition for Effective Intercultural Cooperation

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
N. V. Molchanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Behavioral Strategy ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Helper Factor ◽  
Situational Meaning ◽  
Different Cultures

The article presents theoretical analysis of psychological peculiarities of prosocial behavior and its influence on the cooperation between representatives of different cultures. It views modern approaches to the study of prosocial behavior and ideas concerning its content and functions. The author shows the perspectives of studying prosocial behavior and factors of its determination under conditions of intercultural cooperation (through the example of students). The article states that the mechanism of identification leads to conferment of meaningful orientations, characterizing the culture of this social group that is important for understanding of the peculiarities of intercultural cooperation. The process of situational meaning formation is important in terms of actualization by a person of a certain behavioral strategy (“the helper”). Factor interrelation of “external” generally accepted norms with “internal” characteristics of a person, determines the special nature of prosocial behavior’s expression. The applied aspect of the problem being investigated can be realized in consulting practice of psychological services as well as program development for optimization of intercultural tolerance.

Behavioral Strategy Rating Scale

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Onatsu ◽  
J.-E. Nurmi
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scale ◽  
Behavioral Strategy

The Associative Learning Prediction Error Feedback Loop as Reversible Driving Belt of the Bioenergetics of Longevity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S Price
Keyword(s):  
Associative Learning ◽  
Prediction Error ◽  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Telomerase Activity ◽  
Behavioral Strategy ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Error Feedback ◽  
Treatment Expectations ◽  
Telomere Shortening ◽  
Inhibitory Learning

Leukocyte telomere shortening is a useful biomarker of biological and cellular age that occurs at an accelerated rate in anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Intriguingly, inhibitory learning — the systematic exposure to noxious stimuli that serves as a basis for many treatments for anxiety, phobia, and PTSD —reduces relative telomeres attrition rates and increases protective telomerase activity in a manner predictive of treatment response. How does inhibitory learning, a behavioral strategy, modulate organismal chromosomal activity? Inhibitory learning may induce repeated mismatch between treatment expectations, intrasession states, and eventual outcome. Nevertheless, inhibitory learning can incentivize repetition of the behavior. Thus, this paper aims to conceptualize inhibitory learning as involving a ‘prediction error feedback loop’, i.e., a series of self-perpetuating prediction errors — mismatches between expectations and outcomes — that enhances neural inhibitory regulation to effectuate extinction. Inhibitory learning is necessarily predicated upon an opposing process – excitatory learning – that may be conceptualized as a prediction error feedback loop that operates in reverse to inhibitory learning and enhances neural excitability as arousal. Together, excitatory and inhibitory learning may be elements of an associative learning prediction error feedback loop responsible for modulating neural bioenergetic rates, leading to changes in downstream cellular signaling that could explain reduced or increased rates of leukocyte telomere shortening and telomerase activity from each behavioral strategy, respectively.

scholarly journals Behavioral Strategy and the COVID-19 Disruption

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1322-1329
Author(s):  
Nicolai J. Foss
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Strategy ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Strategy Research ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
Insight Into

What can strategic management research do to help to make sense of the COVID-19 disruption, and what are the implications of the disruption for the strategy field? I argue that among the streams in strategy research, behavioral strategy is uniquely situated in terms of providing a psychologically based interpretive lens that could lend great insight into decision making in extreme conditions. However, the disruption also points to weakness in current behavioral strategy thinking, notably with respect to the role of models vis-à-vis judgment in strategic decision making, the deeply social (political, institutional) nature of strategy making, and the treatment of fundamental uncertainty.

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