Uncertainty in Strategic Decision Making

Chapter 1. Overview of this Book on Strategic Decision-Making under Uncertainty.- Chapter 2. Confusion over Uncertainty in Decision-Making.- Chapter 3. Definitions of Uncertainty (for Decision-Making).- Chapter 4. Sources of Uncertainty (in Decision-Making).- Chapter 5. Span of Effects of Uncertainty (in Decision-Making).- Chapter 6. Negative Effects of Uncertainty (on Decision-Making).-Chapter 7. Positive Effects of Uncertainty (on Decision-Making).- Chapter 8. Optimal Uncertainty (in Decision-Making).- Chapter 9. Measures of Uncertainty (in Decision-Making).- Chapter 10. Multi-Dimensionality of Uncertainty.- Chapter 11. Uncertainty's Connections to Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 12. Uncertainty's Connections to Strategy.- Chapter 13. Uncertainty's Connections to Creativity, Art & Music.- Chapter 14. Uncertainty's Connections to Spirituality/ Religion.- Chapter 15. Uncertainty's Connections to Curiosity, Neurobiology & Evolution.- Chapter 16. Past Failures to Engage with Uncertainty.- Chapter 17. A New Typology of Uncertainty (for Decision-Making).- Chapter 18. Best Treatments & Approaches to Uncertainty Types (in Decision-Making).- Chapter 19. Conclusions of Analysis.- Chapter 20. Supplement on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence

Richard J. Arend is the L.L. Bean/ Lee Surace Chair in Strategic Management at the University of Southern Maine, USA. He specializes in strategic decision-making under uncertainty and in the critical assessments of the current theories of strategy and of entrepreneurship. He has authored two previous books - one on building better theory and one on wicked entrepreneurship.