![]() ![]() ![]() We identify six critical issues with extant research that can be traced back to a continued (over)reliance on the initial conceptualization of problemistic search. We review the literature and argue that the development of the theory has not kept pace with the breadth of the unfolding literature. ![]() in the management literature-it is a central theoretical concept in a broad variety of organizational theories and an important explanation of a wide variety of organizational behaviors and outcomes. The concept of problemistic search has diffused broadly. A firm’s recognition of performance below aspirations leads to search for a solution to the problem, resulting in change intended to restore performance to the aspired level. Problemistic search theory, with its roots in the Carnegie School tradition, describes a behaviorally plausible process by which firms learn from performance feedback. ![]()
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