创新与战略系（筹）学术讨论会

题目: Superficial Strategic Decision Making: The Case of the Muskrat Falls Project

演讲人: Dr. Jianyun Tang, Memorial University of Newfoundland

时间：2025年06月16日 10:00

地点：同济大厦A楼505教室

演讲摘要：

How do strategic leaders cope with their often lack of related knowledge and expertise in making strategic decisions? I induced a midrange theory of superficial strategic decision making (SDM) based on a case study of the multi-year decision process of the Muskrat Falls Project, a hydroelectric megaproject in Canada that experienced significant cost overrun and schedule delay. Superficial SDM is manifested as confirmatory biases, uninformed or misinformed decisions, blind trust, and dismissive of critics, and has as its antecedents individual factors such as prejudice, lack of related experience, and poor judgment, and contextual factors such as intolerant culture, confirmatory context, and dominant power. While superficial SDM seems valuable for coping with strategic leaders’ lack of related knowledge and expertise, it also implies looming perils, in particular, compromised decision quality and leader effectiveness, especially in the long term. This study suggests that mitigating superficial SDM in particular and superficial leadership in general is crucial for effective leadership.

演讲嘉宾简介：

唐箭云博士（教授）目前任职于加拿大纽芬兰纪念大学（Memorial University of Newfoundland）商业管理系，担任战略管理学教授。他于加拿大西安大略大学毅伟商学院（Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario）获得管理学博士学位。唐箭云博士的研究领域包括北美和中国背景下的战略领导力和公司治理。他获得了多项研究基金的支持。他的研究成果发表在多个知名学术期刊上，包括Journal of Management Studies (FT50; ABS:4)，Long Range Planning (ABS:3)，European Management Journal (ABS:2)，Journal of World Business (ABS:4)，以及实践导向类期刊Organizational Dynamics等。