Methodological challenges and advances in managerial and organizational cognition / edited by Robert J.Galavan, Kristian J.Sund, Gerard P.Hodgkinson.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prelims -- Chapter 1: Exploring methods in managerial and organizational cognition: advances, controversies, and contributions -- Chapter 2: Modeling affect and cognition: opportunities and challenges for managerial and organizational cognition -- Chapter 3: An open-ended interview approach for studying cognition and emotion in organizations -- Chapter 4: Methodological issues in leadership training research: in pursuit of causality -- Chapter 5: Policy-capturing: an ingenious technique for exploring the cognitive bases of work-related decisions -- Chapter 6: To grasp cognition in action, combine behavioral experiments with protocol analysis -- Chapter 7: Causal mapping in practice with CMAP3 -- Chapter 8: Quantitative measures of cognitive map structure: probability distributions derived by Monte Carlo Simulation -- Chapter 9: Re-examining what we "anticipate" in a constructed world -- Chapter 10: Neuroscience methods: a framework for managerial and organizational cognition -- Chapter 11: How do managers really think? Using think aloud and fMRI to take a closer look at managerial cognition -- Chapter 12: Rolling the dice: what methodological choices maximize chances for publication in premier strategic management journals? -- Author Biographies -- Index.

This book explores the methodological frontiers of managerial and organizational cognition (MOC), an exciting and divisive interdisciplinary body of work that began with the publication in 1958 of James G. March and Herbert A. Simon's classic work Organizations. Entering its fourth decade, the field gained significant momentum following the appearance of Anne S. Huff's (1990) book Mapping Strategic Thought, which explored the (then) methodological frontiers of MOC. The world has changed since then and so, too, have the methods available to MOC researchers; it is timely, therefore, to examine the extent to which the methods that were foundational to the development of MOC are still fit for purpose. Taking stock of MOC's many methodological accomplishments, the thought-provoking chapters comprising this second volume of the New Horizons in Managerial and Organizational Cognition book series set the agenda for the next phase of the field's development.

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