Building Better Theory

Uncertainty in Strategic Decision Making: Analysis, Categorization, Causation and Resolution

Summary: The book expands on Knight's 1921 definition of uncertainty as an informational market failure that can offer profitable opportunities. It analyzes alternative approaches to strategic decision-making under uncertainty, defining what uncertainty is, why it matters, and its connections to business and other fields. The book provides a new typology and guide for addressing different types of uncertainties, including those related to AI. It clarifies confusion about 'unknowns' and challenges the notion that all uncertainty can be treated as risk. The book broadens the perspective on uncertainty's impacts across humanity and appeals to academics in various disciplines looking for practical and theoretical approaches to decision-making under uncertainty.

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On Theory

Summary: This book provides value to anyone interested in theory for understanding why it exists, why it exists in the form it does, what it is (and what it is not), how to do it and when and where, and the responsibilities it entails. It is useful for those studying theory (or the philosophy of science), for those writing theories, for those critiquing theory, and for those trying to understand and apply the theory. The book provides perspective in this thing (theory) that is ubiquitous, species-differentiating, and yet deeply flawed in many ways the thing that undergirds humanity's greatest successes and continued failures. It demystifies the heart of science while unifying the sciences in terms of goals and duties.

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Wicked Entrepreneurship

Summary: This book explores 'wicked entrepreneurship', or the proliferation of evil that harms our economic and social transactions, as the greatest socio-economic problem of our time and offers strategies to identify and address this phenomenon.

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